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Nation May 17

Tracing one Hmong family’s journey from Laos to Rhode Island

By Isabella Jibilian, Rhode Island PBS

Nation Nov 25

Hmong New Year, November 2022, by Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune
Hmong New Year traditions in the U.S. recall ancestral spirits while teaching new generations

Late fall is the most spiritual time of the year in traditional Hmong culture. For many elders and spiritual leaders, it's critical that these traditions — brought from Southeast Asia which the Hmong had to flee after helping the U.S.

By Giovanna Dell'Orto, Associated Press

Arts Aug 06

TasteOfHome
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Hmong chef Yia Vang brings a taste of home to Minnesota’s Twin Cities

St. Paul, Minnesota, is home to the nation’s largest population of Hmong, an Indigenous people from Southeast Asia. After the Vietnam War, thousands of Hmong refugees ended up in the Upper Midwest and have called the area home for nearly…

By Megan Thompson

Arts Dec 29

2018 Miss Hmong USA beauty pageant winners in heritage dress at annual Hmong Cultural New Year Celebration in Fresno, California. The event is one of the largest held in the country and is a special place for the Hmong community to exchange and further traditions. Courtesy of Mitch Herr
In face of pandemic, Hmong Americans press forward to maintain New Year traditions

As the omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads across the United States, shutting down in-person events and renewing worries of the pandemic, the Hmong American community is going forward with plans to celebrate one of their largest gatherings.

By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado

Nation Sep 03

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center's (SEARAC) Moving Mountains equity summit in Washington DC
As Afghan refugees arrive in the U.S., Southeast Asian American advocates urge more support

Many Vietnamese, Lao, Hmong, and Cambodian Americans see their own families’ journeys to America in the voyage Afghans are making now.

By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

May 15

Family fights for information about Hmong man jailed in Laos in 2011

By Kamala Kelkar

The last time Ka Yang heard from her husband was more than four years ago, when he called her from jail after he was deported from the family's hideout in Bangkok.

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May 21

These groups of Asian-Americans rarely attend college, but California is trying to change that

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report

As one group of Asians who don’t go to college in large numbers, the Hmong help illustrate the complex changing demographics of students arriving at American universities and colleges: increasingly nonwhite, low-income, and first-generation.

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