Written by Michele Y. Smith Black creativity has always been a force of resistance, a lens for liberation, and a tool for ...

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

The staff of Chapter One Book Store share books we love, books that bent our minds, books that illuminated our souls and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Book bans are typically framed as protections for children against “overtly sexual or explicit content,” said Heather Cole, ...

Nicole Mitchell has sown the seeds of inventive music across the country through time in Chicago’s jazz scene, teaching in ...

In honor of Black History Month, the Munday Library along with the Coalition for Black Faculty and Staff hosted a Read-In ...

Black women are brilliant, strong, resilient, giving and loving. And right now, we're tired. We must restore fractured coalitions with our allies.

The story of Afrofuturism starts in the past—or maybe it starts in the future? Honestly, time bends when we are talking about Afrofuturism. It is a space where Black identity is not just shaped by the ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.