Project: A small team of UCLA graduate students traveled the state, heard from more than 900 residents, surveyed over 4,400 more and analyzed 1,000-plus pages of transcripts.

The students’ work documented the range of harms that have been suffered by Black Americans over generations and captured viewpoints on what just compensation should look like. In the fall, the team reported its findings at a public meeting of the California Reparations Task Force, which is conducting closely watched deliberations on the best path forward.

Product: The research team produced an 80-page report to the state Department of Justice.

Scholars: UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, where public policy and urban planning professor Michael Stoll directs the Black Policy Project.

Contact: Michael A. Stoll – Director (mstoll@ucla.edu)

Source: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/reparations-debate-ucla-students-black-californian-voices