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

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

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 hearing meant to address rising hate crimes in America, Republican Senator John Kennedy launched an unfounded ...

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 ...

John Kennedy (R-LA ... and falsely besmirching the leader of an Arab American group was neither home-spun nor folksy. It was racist, inflammatory, intellectually dishonest, and put Maya Berry and Arab ...

Even before Tuesday’s exchange in the Senate hearing titled, "A Threat to Justice Everywhere: Stemming the Tide of Hate ...

Then, Lynn Sweet reported on the finished product of racial prejudice in the person of the hideous Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. This hate-monger apparently believes that all Arab ...

John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana questioned Arab American Institute ... “The introduction of foreign policy is not how we keep Arab Americans or Jewish Americans or Muslim Americans or Black people or ...

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