In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...

The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

The Eaton fire ravaged a historic Black community in Altadena. Now, people are using the words of one of its most famous ...

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

When the Eaton Fire erupted, the Mountain View Cemetery and Mortuary in Altadena faced a rare struggle: racing to save ...

For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up ...

As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...