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 future is not pretty and shiny. It has all the same problems that we have now." American Artist told ARTnews.

You never expect it. As a journalist covering climate disasters and other news, I have always been on the outside, reporting ...

The 5000 Black Afro-Futurist Series brings together creatives in Charleston SC to imagine a future where the African Diaspora ...

All that you touch you change.  All that you change changes you.  The only lasting truth is change.  God is change. –Lauren ...

Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.

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

The devastation in California is not that different from the carnage unfolding thousands of miles away – and neither is what ...

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, including hardcover and paperback ...

1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...

Art has been behind — and indeed at the core of — every great revolution and social movement. There a mountain of important ...