Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island was once a model city school, graduating a wide range of students from different backgrounds.
Disobedient, distracted, a.
Hope was known for its state championship basketball teams in the 1960s, but its 2012 team is much different.
Today, the aging school is primarily Hispanic and African-American, with kids traveling for miles by bus and foot each day.
But the tumult of the 1960s and the drug wars of the 70s changed both Providence and Hope.
Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island was once a model city school, graduating a wide range of students from different backgrounds