Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott will read the nominees at 8:30 a.m. ET. Follow along to see who gets nods for the 97th Academy Awards.

Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did

Widely cited as the first major Black woman author of science fiction, Butler grew up near Altadena, in Pasadena, and spent much of her life in Southern California before moving to the Seattle ...