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Dillard’s, a commercial retail brand, has agreed to pay $900,000 in back pay and damages to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Commission. The plaintiffs in the case alleged that Dillard's failed to promote African American employees based on race. Dillard's also agreed to develop and post written promotion policies for its stores nationwide; post supervisor and manager vacancies; provide anti-discrimination training and provide a dedicated email address and telephone number for employees to use in making failure-to-promote complaints based on race and to report such complaint to the EEOC. Furthermore, Dillard’s also agreed to contact historically Black colleges and universities to recruit students into its Little Rock buyer’s program.