Currently underway live from the Pasadena Civic Center, this year’s NAACP Image Awards is putting a spotlight on Altadena ...
This California town, home to many migrants from the Deep South, has determined to rebuild after the Eaton fire’s destruction.
Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” By Aaron Foley In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler ...
As Frieze Los Angeles shines a spotlight on art in the city, one community, long facing institutional apathy, calls for ...
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 ...
This partnership project between Frieze and Black Trustee Alliance records testimony of the Los Angeles community in the wake ...
The Altadena resident turned her bookstore, Octavia's Bookshelf, into a support hub to help her community during the recent ...
On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was ...
Rushmore of L.A.'s prophets, alongside Joan Didion, Carey McWilliams and Octavia Butler. His words ... of millions [are] ...
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 ...
Altadena lost at least 17 lives and thousands of homes to the flames – many more than the City of Pasadena which, while also devastated, lost just under 200 homes. And the city leaders and community ...
As we address the aftermath of the wildfires, let us resolve not just to build back better but also smarter, with a ...