One of the country's top recording artists, he was master of ceremonies when the national television network introduced racially balanced shows in 1995.

The district assigned students to create racially balanced schools, then developed strategies like magnet schools to encourage voluntary desegregation.

Issues of workplace equity aside, the value to communities of racially balanced police forces has never been calculated.

And yet 82 percent of whites and 62 of blacks opposed making children leave their neighborhoods to create racially balanced schools, the poll found.

But the federal conviction was overturned last year when an appeals court ruled that the judge had gone too far in trying to ensure a racially balanced jury.

She estimated that it would take until 2010 or 2011 to meet the settlement's requirements of eight racially balanced 600-student magnet schools.

The plan clusters Seattle schools into eight racially balanced areas of 6 to 10 schools each.

In the 1970s the school developed a more racially balanced faculty as well.

I think it's good for children to be exposed to all different kinds of people, and I don't disagree with the idea of racially balanced schools.

In February the School Committee approved an approach dividing the city into three racially balanced zones.