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 ...

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

The Altadena resident turned her bookstore, Octavia's Bookshelf, into a support hub to help her community during the recent ...

As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for ...

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 ...

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 ...