The family of Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee, who’s Hmong American, erupted in hugs and cheers Thursday the moment she won gold in the women’s individual all-around gymnastics final, a reaction that ...

Yia Vang is everywhere. From filming television shows and debuting food at Target Field to operating Union Hmong Kitchen's stand in Minneapolis' Graze food hall and fielding questions about his highly ...

Following a country visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic in November 2024, UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights Alexandra Xanthaki has published a report confirming violations of cultural ...

Artist Poa Houa Her at her Minneapolis studio on April 21 with one of her junglescape photographs. Her lived in hiding in the jungles of Laos for over a year before escaping to a refugee camp in ...

The scent of pork belly and lime filled the air on a recent Saturday at parking-lot-turned-farmers market in Northeast Anchorage. Here, to the soundtrack of humming generators and traffic noise from ...

When gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee stepped out on the global stage at the Tokyo Olympics, she wasn’t just representing Team USA. She was also representing the Hmong community around the world. And the ...

The story of Suni Lee’s rise as Olympic gold medalist in many ways reflects the larger struggles of the Hmong people as one of the country’s most marginalized Asian American groups. Lee, 18, winner of ...

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Lee Pao Xiong shows off a map of refugee camps in Thailand and Laos in the Center for Hmong Studies at Concordia University in St. Paul on Wednesday.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Doualy Xaykaothao, a journalist based on Minnesota, recently gave us a ...

Sheng Thao, the daughter of refugees, will become the most prominent Hmong American politician when she leads the California city of 440,000 residents. Sheng Thao at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland ...

The last time Mai Chue Xiong 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. Thailand had made a ...