Rebecca Castillo is a video creator and special projects lead for Los Angeles Times’ High School Insider and other Public Affairs programs. A Southern California native, she is an alumna of Swarthmore ...
As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for ...
The Altadena resident turned her bookstore, Octavia's Bookshelf, into a support hub to help her community during the recent ...
This partnership project between Frieze and Black Trustee Alliance records testimony of the Los Angeles community in the wake ...
Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles ... The Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, home to Butler’s final resting place, was caught in the path of the Eaton fire but sustained ...
The West Coast is on fire. Sea level rise is slowly eating away at our shores, and record-breaking floods have come for the Midwestern states. Wealth ...
Residents face the daunting prospect of rebuilding their homes in this once-thriving historically Black community.
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Black-owned Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena becomes resource hub for fire evacueesAfter realizing her business survived the Eaton Fire, Nikki High, opened her bookstore’s shelfs for donations and offered electricity and internet connection to evacuees.
Jackie Robinson’s mother, Sidney Pointier and Octavia Butler all called Altadena home. The Black population in Altadena was more than 40% in the 1980s, according to the Altadena Historical Socie ...
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What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades agoScience fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel ... a fire and then raided by scavengers and looters. So was Altadena. Butler is buried in Altadena. Her cemetery caught fire ...
Butler still has strong ties to the community. She is buried at Mountain View Mortuary and Cemetery in Altadena. And Octavia’s Bookshelf, a Pasadena bookstore named for the beloved author is ...
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