Its enrollment is now about 93 percent black and Hispanic.

Without the quota, he said, the school, with 2,500 students in grades 7 through 12, would be only 15 percent black and Hispanic.

The community, about 80 percent black, is made up mainly of old people and children.

Today the city is more than 85 percent black and Hispanic.

In the city's 15 public schools today, there are 10,400 students, 81 percent of them black.

In addition, the city's public school student body is now more than 70 percent black and Hispanic.

I went to schools that were 95 percent black and Spanish-speaking.

Would it be hard for some parents if the schools ended up 97 percent black?

After busing, 60 percent of Boston parents, both black and white, reported more discipline problems in schools.

The district's enrollment has become 99 percent black or Hispanic, according to state records for 2002.