The Hmong ethnic group have famously cultivated rice on terraced hillsides for centuries in Mu Cang Chai district Vietnam. Hmong people account for over 90 percent of the district's population of ...

As co-founder and executive director of the Hmong American Farmers Association in Minnesota, Janssen Hang has met Gov. Tim Walz several times. It's usually been on farmland with Walz in his trademark ...

MORGANTON, N.C. - On the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, Tou Lee walks through a muddy field as he surveys the damage on his 11-acre farm. Limp kale, moldy rice and pumpkins ...

Best of 2024: The 1978 unsolved disappearance of the Yuba County Five. Plus, “The Hungry Season” details a Hmong rice farmer in the Central Valley. Finally, “Dancing the Afrofuture,” a memoir studying ...

Chef Vang shares Hmong heritage through food in Minneapolis. Chef Yia Vang uses food as a catalyst for storytelling and firmly believes that every dish has a narrative. Yia fuses local Minnesotan ...