SHEBOYGAN – A South High alum won the 2024 Miss Asian Global Pageant, becoming the first Hmong woman to claim the title in the competition’s nearly 40-year history. “I feel very honored,” Raine said. ...

This story was produced and originally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. It was made possible by donors like you. Monica Lo stayed silent for years as the man she ...

Video went viral on Jan. 19 of ICE agents dragging a shirtless man, identified as 56-year-old Chongly "Scott" Thao, out into ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – In a crowded refugee camp in Thailand, Misty Her often sneaked away to a school house and listened through a hole in the wall. She knew she could never attend, being Hmong and a ...

In more than three decades of years of living in Morganton, Duabhav Lee said she had never seen any storm hit her hometown the way Helene did. "It's heartbreaking," she said on Oct. 8. "There are ...

Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. NINA MOINI: It's Minnesota now. I'm Nina Moini. And 2025 is an important anniversary for the Hmong community. It ...

Pao Houa Her, “Girl with umbrella” (2016), digital Inkjet Archival Print, found image (image courtesy Bockley Gallery and the artist) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — At the age of four, in 1986, Pao Houa Her ...

Later this year, a group of Hmong American young women from Sacramento will travel to Laos to finally meet their yearlong pen pals in person. They are part of Hmong Youth Beyond Borders (HYBB), a ...

Fifty years ago, Hmong people first arrived in Minnesota as refugees from the wars of Southeast Asia. In their Laotian homeland, they were earmarked for destruction for having aided the U.S. side in ...

In 1976, when I was 8 years old, my family and I came to the United States as refugees from Laos. We are Hmong, which is one of the ethnic groups in Laos that acted as allies of the Americans during ...

As ordinary Minnesotans stand up for their friends and neighbors in the face of a sweeping anti-immigrant crackdown, our state is showing its exceptionalism to the world. It’s in that vein I’d like to ...