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Black families in Chicago to receive reparations in historic first

Sixteen black families living in a suburb of Chicago are to be given twenty-five thousand dollars in reparations for housing discrimination.

Sixteen black families living in a suburb of Chicago are to be given twenty-five thousand dollars each, in the first reparation for housing discrimination ever carried out in the United States. The families live in Evanston – an area that has pledged to distribute ten million dollars over a decade. Robin Rue Simmons, the Alderman of Evanston’s Fifth Ward who led the campaign, discusses how this is just the beginning of a broader reparations movement for African Americans as restitution for centuries of slavery and discrimination.Today, Gamestop posted the 9th consecutive quarter sales loss. However its e-commerce sales jumped 175% in the last quarter. Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading tells us why the company did not live up to expectations. Also in the programme, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Justin Rowlatt explores whether China is on the verge of taking a tougher stance against coal, both at home and abroad. Plus from Delhi, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Arunoday Mukharji reports on the rise of the electric motorbike.

(Picture: Alderman Robin Rue Simmons. Picture credit: Getty Images/Kamil Krzaczynski.)

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