African Americans have found refuge and community in Altadena for more than a century, flourishing despite housing ...

Graphic novelist John Jennings has become well-versed with novelist Octavia Butler’s dystopian worlds with two previous award ...

The free exhibit features generations of Black artists showcasing Altadena’s creative history and endurance, even after the ...

Joe Ford, Altadena resident In the same cemetery rests abolitionist Ellen Garrison Clark, the daughter of a formerly enslaved man, and celebrated Black speculative fiction author Octavia Butler.

“Altadena has a very strong ... of books and merchandise from Octavia’s Bookshelf, named after Octavia Butler, a prominent Black writer of the area. The California African American Museum ...