Team USA scored another Tokyo 2020 win on Thursday, with Sunisa Lee bagging a gold medal in the women's gymnastics all-around final. Lee, whose parents emigrated from Laos, is the first-ever Hmong ...
Documentary filmmaker Christopher Woon-Chen says he wanted to understand his own relationship with hip-hop culture and breakdancing. He’s Chinese-American and he asked himself, "Can Asian-Americans be ...
At 15, Sarah Vang is a confident leader. With her big, persistent smile, she runs her high school Hmong Club meeting with ease, spreading enthusiasm even to the most reluctant participants. She ...
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 ...
May Lee-Yang says she’s a lazy Hmong woman. She’s said it on stages from Anchorage to Milwaukee. She’s said it at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and it’s the title of her blog. Despite her Hmong ...
It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than others. But 11-year-old Irene Her stands in front of the classroom, ...