Banksy print bought for $300 sets record Australian price at auction
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An Australian record has been set for the sale of a Banksy print with the anonymous artist’s
Love Is In the Air (2003) selling at auction for nearly $200,000.
Purchased by an unidentified bidder in America, it was offered in a single-lot, 10-day, online auction by Smith & Singer on Wednesday night and attracted bidders from around the world. It sold for $184,091, doubling the previous Australian record of $73,000.
Banksy’s Love Is In The Air (2003), was auctioned on Wednesday.
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PERSONAL MEMORANDUM
Subject: Importance of Registering to Vote and Voting on June 5, 2021
Date: April 21, 2021
Will you be in the Hall of Fame or carry a badge of shame to your grave?
On June 5, 2021, Ethiopia will have its first free and fair parliamentary election in its history.
I cannot vote on June 5 with you because I gave up Ethiopian citizenship and took refuge in America during the Derg’s reign of terror.
I could not return to the land of Ethnic Apartheid during the reign of terror of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
In July 2009, I asked myself, “What is it the Ghanaians got, We ain’t got?” I was frankly jealous of Ghana’s nascent democracy.
A Palestinian woman flashes a victory sign as she shouts at Israeli forces following a protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land on July 19, 2013 in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. (Photo: Nedal Eshtayah/ APA Images)
African-American artist Nina Simone, also an activist in the American Civil Rights Movement, experienced the most important turning point of her life when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her application as a student because of the color of her skin. Simone expressed her disappointment at being deprived of the opportunity of becoming the first Black classical pianist in the United States. This racist incident gravely impacted Simone’s life and forced her to work in bars. Later, she decided to write her own song lyrics. Some of those songs became revolutionary icons as they fueled Black people to be proud of who they were, united them against white supremacy, raised their self-confidence, and urged them t