During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy accused an Arab American civil rights ...

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

Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, shares first-hand receiving racists attacks from Sen. John ...

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 ...

Arab American witness before you and saying, 'You support Hamas.' I do not support Hamas," Maya Berry told the GOP senator.

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

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

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

At a U.S. Senate Judiciary hearing on hate crimes, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, sparred with the executive director of Arab ...

Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy accused an Arab American activist of being a member of Hamas, in an incredibly racist ...

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

Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute. This is Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana questioning Berry. Maya Berry: “I think it’s exceptionally disappointing that you’re ...