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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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ'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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Arunoday Mukharji reports on the rise of the electric motorbike.

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