Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sheboygan South’s Raine Xiong smiles during the 2023 Sheboygan Area School District commencement, at Vollrath Bowl, Saturday, June ...

those who came to her father, the chief of the province, for help with their domineering husbands. Instead, at age 6 she decided that she would do something radical by the standard of her people, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Kaohly Her, 52, made history early Wednesday when she became the first woman and person of Hmong descent elected mayor of St. Paul, defeating two-term Mayor Melvin Carter in a ranked-choice election.

Sheboygan South’s Raine Xiong smiles during the 2023 Sheboygan Area School District commencement, at Vollrath Bowl, Saturday, June 10, 2023, in Sheboygan, Wis. SHEBOYGAN – A South High alum won the ...

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 ...

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. Raine said winning the pageant as ...