Ashley Russell

Vinyl record and action figures collector, chaser of concerts, explorer of faith, feminist, sister, teacher and closet blogger.

[Dr. Notisha Massaquoi @NotishaMassaqu1]

We have to stop calling racial profiling mistaken identity. The TPS was founded in 1834 the same year slavery ends in Canada. The over policing and excessive use of force experienced by Black communities in Toronto by the TPS is historically foundational https://t.co/N340DNizyX

[Ashley Russell @AshleyRTweets]

@gghamari please help and demand a ceasefire

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

URGENT: Hospitals in Gaza have been under bombardment the past 24 hrs. Al-Shifa Hospital complex, where our staff are still working, has been hit several times, resulting in multiple deaths & injuries.

The attacks against hospitals must STOP.

We NEED an immediate ceasefire.

https://t.co/iEH68YRcAK

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

17 year old Tupac Shakur’s views on education.

[Dr. Robyn Michaud @GiwedinAnangKwe]

Its Reconciliation Week. Reposting the link to my Google drive of resources in French and English- including a shared reading around Rita Joe’s “I lost my talk”/ “J’ai perdue ma langue”. Please feel free to share with colleagues! #OrangeShirtDay 🧡🪶

https://t.co/X2ZaUR6wuM

[Amie Archibald-Varley @AmieVarley]

Black people around the world watching some white people defending Polievre for his “slip up” of saying the N-word.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

It’s definitely an unintentional flub that he immediately corrected, but yeah Poilievre did accidentally say the n-word while offering condolences here.

[St Bernadette OCSB @BernadetteOCSB]

This is an extra special hopscotch. I Am….. powerful, brave, curious, smart, creative, loved, imaginative, kind, worth it and brilliant. What a great reminder for everyone! Go Be Kind.

[Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy]

Today is the 1st anniversay of Mahsa Zhina Amini's death.

Her death after being taken into custody by “morality police” was the spark of the feminist revolution in Iran.

Love & solidarity to all rising up for freedom from dictatorship & gender apartheid https://t.co/JKXwXYD2rc

[Jenna @spilling_wine13]

Taylor reacting to NSYNC is me reacting to Taylor (and NSYNC because I am such a millennial)

[Dr. Robyn Michaud @GiwedinAnangKwe]

Another #OrangeShirtDay tip for schools. Many families struggle with finding orange shirts for the day, even though they want to support. Here is a sticker template that uses Avery 5214. Schools can print stickers for students to show their support.🧡🪶
https://t.co/gR8HUxAqqR

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Raymond Moriyama, one of Canada's greatest architects and the co-designer of the Canadian War Museum, has died.

Raymond was born on Oct. 11, 1929 in Vancouver. After suffering burns when he was four, he was recovering when he saw an architect leaving a construction site. He decided at that point he wanted to be an architect.

As a child, Raymond and his family were forced into an internment camp during the Second World War. He described his time there as miserable. At the camp, he built a treehouse, his first building.

After the war, his family settled in Hamilton. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto in 1954, and a Master of Architecture from McGill.

He married his wife Sachi in 1954. Together they had five children, two of whom went on to become architects themselves.

In 1964, he designed the Ontario Science Centre, and continued to design several famous buildings in Canada including the Scarborough Civic Centre and the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library. Both won Governor General's Medals.

In 1985, he received the Order of Canada, and in 1992, received the Order of Ontario.

In the early-1990s, he designed the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, and the Bata Shoe Museum. He also designed Ottawa City Hall, the Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute and the Museum London in London, Ontario.

In 1999, he was the key architect of the National Museum of Saudi Arabia.
From 2001 to 2007, he was the chancellor of Brock University.

His most famous building was the Canadian War Museum, which he designed with Alex Rankin. Regeneration was the main theme of the design team in creating the building.

In 2007, Canada Post issued a stamp honouring him.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Willie Mays makes a catch at the wall at Ebbets Field, 1954.

Willie Howard Mays Jr. who was born on May 6, 1931. Nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid” Mays spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants (1951–1952, 1954–1972) before finishing his career with the New York Mets (1972–1973). Regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.
Willie Mays joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League in 1948, playing with them until the Giants signed him once he graduated from high school in 1950. He won the Rookie of the Year Award in his MLB debut year of 1951, spent two years in the United States Army during the Korean War, and won the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1954 after leading the league in batting with a .345 batting average. His over-the-shoulder catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series is one of the most famous baseball plays of all time. The Giants swept the Cleveland Indians, the lone World Series triumph of Mays's career.
Mays led the NL with 51 home runs (HR) in 1955. In 1956, he stole 40 bases, leading the NL for the first of four straight years. He won his first of 12 Gold Glove Awards in 1957, a record for outfielders. The Giants moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, and Mays contended for the batting title until the final day of 1958, hitting a career-high .347. He batted over .300 for the next two seasons, leading the league in hits in 1960. After leading the NL with 129 runs scored in 1961, Mays led the NL in home runs in 1962 as the Giants won the NL pennant and faced the New York Yankees in the World Series, which the Giants lost in seven games.
By 1963, Mays was making over $100,000 a year, setting a record at the time with a $105,000 contract for that season. In 1964, his manager Alvin Dark named him the Giants' captain. He led the NL with 47 home runs that year. He hit 52 the following year, leading the NL and winning his second MVP award. 1966 was the last of 10 seasons in which he had over 100 runs batted in (RBI). In 1969, he hit the 600th home run of his career; he got his 3,000th hit in 1970. Traded to the Mets in 1972, Mays spent the rest of that season and 1973 with them before retiring. He served as a coach for the Mets until 1979 and later rejoined the Giants as a special assistant to the president and general manager.
Mays finished his career batting .302 with 660 home runs, the sixth-most of all time, and 1,903 runs batted in. He holds MLB records for most putouts as an outfielder (7,095) and the most extra-inning home runs (22). Mays was selected for 24 All-Star Games, tied for the second-most of all time. He was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999 and ranked second on The Sporting News's "List of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players", behind only Babe Ruth. President Barack Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Happy birthday to Keanu Reeves, born today in 1964!
Raised in the Toronto area, he briefly worked as a reporter for CBC, and was in an NFB film.
One of the most famous actors in the world, he has also directed & plays bass in Dogstar
He currently only holds Canadian citizenship.

[Camille C. @EducatorCCC]

I miss seeing this on my phone.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Each province and territory in Canada, represented by a Muppet who lives there. Generated by AI.

1. British Columbia

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Happy Star Wars Day!

[Ashley Russell @AshleyRTweets]

@ESL_fairy @wrdsb How do I get one?