Both the right and the left are waging a war against books. The right is focusing on schools. According to a PEN America ...

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

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

Kennedy’s daughter recalled the whale incident in a 2012 interview with Town and Country magazine, which recently resurfaced ...

Hanaan Shahin came to D.C. only to hear more of the same anti-Palestinian bigotry that got her son Wadea killed.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Both major presidential candidates are making appearances Thursday meant to fire up their core supporters. Vice President ...

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