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A mother was verbally assaulted by the owner of a Dairy Queen in Zion, Illinois recently after the proprietor referred to her and her children as the "N-word" in a hateful racist tirade. The tearful mother spoke out in a Facebook post about her painful experience as a customer, with Black Lives Matter and local activists organizing a protest over the weekend.

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Atlanta Hawks general manager Wes Wilcox is in hot water after making a racially insensitive joke about being used to anger because of having a "Black wife and three mixed kids" during a fan event in December.