The NAACP Image Awards is putting a spotlight on Altadena residents who have experienced devastating loss following the Los ...

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter ... Where sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler is buried alongside abolitionists, and where a park is named after artist Charles ...

Science fiction writer Octavia ... by the recent California wildfires. In the novel, Robledo is destroyed by a fire and then raided by scavengers and looters. So was Altadena. Butler is buried ...

Donations poured in from around Southern California and the ... High, 50, was born and raised in the Altadena community and said it had a tremendous impact on her upbringing. The bookstore's namesake ...

“It had this energy of bohemian California,” said ... Beggs’s 2022 “Welcome to Altadena” mural, which contains images of Charles White and Octavia Butler, and survived the fire.

Shaper of God, an exhibition by American Artist at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works art centre, is the culmination of a four-year project inspired by the life and work of Octavia E. Butler. The show’s ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. Unlike most of her neighbors, Nikki’s Altadena home was not destroyed ...

It destroyed nearly two hundred buildings in Altadena and the nearby community of Kinneloa Mesa. By the time the fire began, California ... not incorrect about Octavia Butler predicting the ...

Still, Black Angelenos found a rare kind of prosperity in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley as Altadena became one of ... Sidney Poitier and Octavia Butler all called Altadena home.

Octavia Butler ... acres in Altadena and parts of northeast Pasadena, reduced hundreds of homes to ash, and killed at least 16 people. It is one of the deadliest fires in California history.