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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.