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 ...

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

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

U.S. Sen. John Kennedy played the role of concerned politician with consummate flair when he made his way around southeast ...

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.

The White House slammed Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) for asking if an Arab American witness supported Hamas and Hezbollah during ...

La., faces backlash from civil rights groups after telling an Arab American witness to “hide your head in a bag” following ...

The comment from the Senator has been called a direct racist attack. Calls for Kennedy to be censured have been growing since the hearing.

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In the front row of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday (Sept. 17) sat Hanaan Shahin, the mother of Wadea Al ...

Let’s be clear. A vote for this bill would further support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” said Rashida Tlaib.