Octavia Butler was a black female science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Are they her words on the left of her photo?
As I like them very much as it is true.
No matter an edict.... a History prized 4 recognition praise & respect CANNOT be changed, dictated, obstructed, & stopped by an executive order past present or future 😀🧏🏾♀️💙💯✊🏾👣🫱🏻🫲🏾🗣🫶🏾🫂🥳🤷🏾♀️
I couldn't put it down.
I can't think of a more fitting reminder for everyone in the community of what can-do is all about.
https://www.lapl.org/labs/octavia-lab
Is she the inspiration for Brian Herbert naming Serena Butler's sister Octavia in the Legends of Dune series?
#blackhistorymonth
It is a vision of what we are about to experience. She even got the year right. Amazing and terrifying
https://pasadenanow.com/main/octavia-butlers-dystopian-visions-take-center-stage-at-the-huntington-library
Potus elon musk
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It is WORLD History, because so many Black People added to the story of World History.
Regardless of what month it might be, it will always, and I mean ALWAYS be,
BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
My ancestors were enslavers in eastern Maryland where Kindred took place.
The Maryland family was on my father's side.
My mother's father was a klansman in PA. Fortunately, he died when I was a baby.
The good news is that we have broken that chain of hate and cruelty.
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Alice Ball (1892-1916) was an African American chemist who developed the first effective treatment for leprosy. Alice Ball was 23 years old when she developed a treatment for leprosy in 1915.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dymJcBkGlbs
When I heard her saying the crazy religious guy wanting to be president wanted to "Make America Great Again," it took my breath away.
Her parables are so prescient
The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State is a non-fiction wrote at the birth of the internwt.
It was rebranded when Peter Thiel & Silicon Valley tech bros found it. That tells you what's happening
She definitely saw it all coming.
Bring this to the people!
I have never forgotten that and I believe that Butler was spot on about it.
Predator. It breaks my heart.
I am so sick of people I thought were good people being revealed to be monsters.
”Jarret’s supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret’s talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around”
That's how it's supposed to be.
I didn't know that she was black until the third time I read a book by her;