Japanese YouTuber Uketsu is best known for wearing a white papier-mache mask and making very surreal content. Now, he’s a ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

Last June, Pasadena, California — about 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles — decreed that June 22 was Octavia E. Butler Day ... “I'm Black, female, the child of a shoeshine man who died ...

In honor of Groundhog Day, Omaha Public Library staff members suggest their favorite books featuring time loops and other ...

Book Review: Kyle Paoletta’s ‘American Oasis’ offers lessons for a hotter, drier world Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by ...

All that you touch you change.  All that you change changes you.  The only lasting truth is change.  God is change. –Lauren ...

The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic Black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.

Octavia’s Bookshelf, named after celebrated local science fiction writer Octavia Butler and the first Black-owned bookstore ... “How do you explain this to your child?” Celeste asked. “I came to a ...

For the third year, a handful of Black staffers at The 19th have come together to reflect on what Black History Month means ...