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 ...

In 1992, while Octavia E. Butler was writing her novel Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles was hitting bottom. The acquittal of ...

It is a growth parable. Parable Meaning Significance for today A man went out to sow grain. The man represents God and the seed is His message. Just as a planted seed starts to grow, the word of ...

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 ...

All That We Touch, We Change. But the direction of that change depends on how willing we are to learn. Tossin’s exhibit will ...

However, Parable of the Sower works beautifully as an examination ... she apparently had planned a third novel, Parable of the Trickster. But maybe it’s just as well that she and Lauren were ...

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which was inspired by the novel, “Parable of the Sower.” “It’s about a world where the earth is burning and income inequality is rampant and things are just bad and getting worse,” Hall ...