In July 2007, The Nike Company reached a $7.6 million settlement in a class-action race discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of 400 black employees of the company's Chicago Niketown store.

The lawsuit, filed in 2003, claimed managers at the retail store used
racial slurs to refer to black workers and customers. They also said
the store segregated black employees into lower-paying jobs as
stockroom workers and cashiers rather than giving them lucrative sales
jobs. - Read Story