Almitra L. Berry, Ed.D. | Author | Podcast Host

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Champion for educational equity. Author of professional development books empowering educators to create positive change for marginalized learners.

Texas voters just sent the book banners packing. Not in California. Not in New York. In Texas. Across the state, voters went to the polls and threw out right-wing school board members who built their local political brands on book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies and Christian nationalist culture-war panic

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#OnThisDay in 1884, crusading journalist Ida B. Wells was riding a train from Memphis to Woodstock TN, when a white railroad conductor ordered her to move to another car. She refused. Dragged off the train, she sued the railroad and won $500. mississippitoday.org/2025/05/04/1...

1884: Ida B. Wells dragged off train car - Mississippi Today

On this day in 1884, crusading journalist Ida B. Wells was dragged off a train when she refused to move from a whites-only railroad car.

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