Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy's contentious exchange with an Arab American activist at a hate crimes hearing, in ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In remarks on Thursday at the Economic Club in Washington, President Joe Biden said the Fed's rate cut was "an important day," but stopped short of declaring victory. U.S. intelligence agencies ...

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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.