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

Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...

February is Black History Month, and that means it's a great time to take stock of some of the Black creators who have helped ...

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.

As someone who has read most of Davis' work and knew him personally, I can say that his writings were cris de coeur more than ...

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 ...

Horror is having a moment. Once confined largely to Halloween, or at least to October, “spooky season” has evolved into a monthslong ...

The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror ...

The beloved dystopian sci-fi series "Red Rising" by Pierce Brown will return in "Red God," but when? While you wait, here are ...

For the third year in a row MakeRoom — a curatorial agency that focuses on finding paid exhibitions for BIPOC and emerging ...