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. ...

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 ...

Monica Lo stayed silent for years as the man she married abused her. She said he punched and even choked her. Lo said she didn’t report the violence to law enforcement and lied to doctors about her ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — On Thursday, July 29, 2021 Minnesota gymnast Sunisa Lee competed in the women's gymnastics all-around finals at the Tokyo Olympics. KARE 11 anchor Gia Vang, a Hmong-American woman, ...

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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 ...

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 ...