San Francisco became the fifth major U.S. city to require banks and other companies doing business with it to disclose whether they profited from slavery.
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This week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance that gives financial, insurance, and textile companies contracting with the city nine months to prove they conducted research to determine whether they had benefited from the U.S. slave trade.
Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., and Berkeley, Calif., have approved similar ordinances.
