 Richmond was the first city in California to do so, and in the country second behind only Chicago.Mentioning the word "reparations", this story was picked up by the "San Francisco Chronicle" and carried in papers in Salt Lake City, Utah and Bluffton, South Carolina.As part of the "Consent calendar" at the 1 March 2005 meeting, the city council adopted an ordinance, sponsored by Mindell Penn and María Viramontes, to divest city funds from financial institutions linked to slavery.