Many historians assume all Baptists in early America wanted a Jeffersonian wall between church and state. But at least four groups of Baptists did not.
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Itchiness about Beethoven’s cultural dominance would continue to bring classical music out in occasional hives, and in 2007 Nadine Gordimer published a collection of short stories called Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. But the issue of race laid largely dormant until this year – the 250th anniversary of his birth – when against the backdrop of Covid-19 becoming inextricably linked with the Black Lives Matter movement, echoes of Carmichael and X were voiced, coming from directions nobody expected.
William Gibbons, a musicologist at the College of Fine Arts in Forth Worth, Texas, had already put a bomb under classical music Twitter with a thread that began: “As 2019 winds down, here’s a short thread about one of my big resolutions for 2020: spending a full year avoiding Beethoven.” Then the pandemic struck and swept all the Beethoven celebrations aside anyway. With Europe heading towards lockdown, the composer Charlotte Seither, debating at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, c
Another bout of unlocked cars led to stolen handguns in Gainesville a persistent problem in the county but this time the forgetful owners were campus police.
Three people were arrested and charged with burglarizing unlocked personal and marked cars belonging to two University of Florida police officers.
Two of the officers personally-owned handguns were swiped and sold on the street for $240. A third weapon a shotgun was taken from a marked UF police patrol vehicle and its whereabouts are unknown.
“The safety of the community is of the utmost importance to us,” said UF Police Capt. Kristy Sasser. “When we learned these weapons were out in the community, everyone s safety was the first thing on our mind.”