In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

In Altadena, 61% of Black households were located ... including award-winning science fiction author Octavia Butler and baseball legend Jackie Robinson. “Jackie Robinson is a central hero.

“This community – Pasadena, Altadena, the community that’s ... re seeing or that you’re reading about in a book, an Octavia Butler book, you will start to ask yourself some questions ...