‘Race and education, 65 years after Brown’

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education 65 years ago, holding that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. But Sheretta Butler-Barnes and Maya Williams, of the Brown School, write in a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that inequities still exist today. For example, African American and […]

Book studies Saint-Saëns’ operas

Hugh Macdonald, the Avis Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music in Arts & Sciences, has published the book “Saint-Saëns and the Stage,” examining the operas, plays and other works of the French composer. Read more about this and other books by WashU authors on the Bookshelf.
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