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Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve in the 1950s In 1952, Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. Presented by WFIU Indianapolis and PRX. Monday, March 8th the mother of afrofuturism writer Octavia Butler Octavia Butler was a deep observer of the human condition, perplexed and inspired by our propensity towards self-destruction. She described herself as a pessimist, if I m not careful. As an award-winning science fiction writer and mother of Afrofuturism, her visionary works of alternate realities reveal striking and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. Butler was fascinated by the cyclical nature of history and often looked to the past when writing about the future. She broke on to the science fiction scene at a time when she knew of no other Black women in the field, saying she simply had to write herself in.

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