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 Kennedy (R-LA) and an Arab American witness got into a back-and-forth exchange Tuesday after Kennedy repeatedly ...

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

"You should hide your head in a bag," the Louisiana Republican sniped at Maya Berry of the Arab American Institute, after ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...