1:30 - 2:30
Meet children's author, Angela Dalton, at The Pop-Up Village at the Southeast Community Center, as we continue to celebrate Black excellence and Black women authors.
To Boldly Go tells the true story of Nichelle Nichols and how she used her platform on Star Trek to inspire and recruit a new generation of diverse astronauts and many others in the space and STEM fields. As Lieutenant Uhura on the iconic prime-time television show Star Trek, Nichols played the first Black female astronaut anyone had ever seen on-screen. A smart, strong, independent Black woman aboard the starship Enterprise was revolutionary in the 1960s, when only white men had traveled to outer space in real life and most Black characters on TV were servants.
Free book to the first 40 attendees.
Angela Dalton is a children’s book author based in Oakland, California, who has a background in producing online kids’ games. She began writing at a young age and saw it as a way to create her own world. Her self-published picture book, If You Look Up to the Sky, was inspired by her grandmother and an early fascination with outer space and astronomy. Both traditionally and independently published, her work centers black children as main characters in spaces and represents them in ways she wishes she had seen growing up.
The Sistah Scifi Series, celebrates Black women authors in speculative fiction.
Sistah Scifi is the first Black owned bookstore focused on science fiction and fantasy in the United States.
The Pop-Up Village is popping Up 2nd Saturdays in the Bayview through June. Welcoming families, pregnant people and all interested to celebrate in community, engage in self-care, get valuable resources and services, and much more…