US Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) told Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry during a Senate Judiciary ...

Maya Berry came to testify as an expert on hate crimes. She ended up the target of blatant anti-Arab racism by Republican ...

Sen. John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana questioned Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, asking her whether she supported Hamas, Hezbollah or ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Berry went before the Senate to discuss the important issue of hate crimes, only to receive a torrent of abuse. She should be ...