On Tuesday, Republican Sen. John Kennedy provided a master class on delivering a racist line of questioning—and during a ...

We speak with Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, after she faced racist and hostile ...

The Louisiana Republican sparked an outcry after making the remark to an Arab American activist during a Senate hearing on ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute, about a contentious exchange at a Senate hearing on hate crimes.

Berry says the experience illustrated the very problem of dehumanization the hearing was meant to address. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If ...

Republican Senator John Kennedy attacked Arab American Institute Director Maya Berry with racist rant during her Senate ...

Robert McCaw of the the Council on American-Islamic Relations says Kennedy should face censure for weaponizing a hateful anti ...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told an Arab American witness that she should “hide [her] head in a bag” after repeatedly asking ...

On Tuesday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-Lousiana) repeatedly made offensive comments that Arab American activist Maya Berry is a ...

"Hamas is a foreign terrorist organization that I do not support, but you asking the executive director of the Arab American ...

Maya Berry, executive of the Arab American Institute, repeatedly denied Kennedy's allegations of supporting the Israel-Hamas ...

The White House blasted Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) for asking the director of the Arab American Institute whether she supports ...