Maya Berry came to testify as an expert on hate crimes. She ended up the target of blatant anti-Arab racism by Republican ...

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

Sen. John Kennedy accusing the Arab American Institute's Maya Berry of supporting terrorism and demanding she put a "your ...

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 ...

“By focusing on hate crime statistics, the federal government’s role in ... John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) on Sept. 17 antagonized Maya Berry, the executive director of the Arab American Institute, during ...

During a Senate committee hearing on hate crimes, Senator John Kennedy aggressively questioned Maya Berry, Executive Director ...

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

US Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) told Arab American Institute Executive Director Maya Berry during a Senate Judiciary ...

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

The strange scene played out in front of the cameras at a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which met to discuss ...

Sen. Kennedy's prime objective was to paint Maya Berry as an anti-Semitic, terrorist loving, Iranian supporting, down with ...