Day: February 21, 2020
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City Wins Grant for New Park on 31st and Galena
The area around the park, known as Walnut Hill, has a large population of Hmong, Burmese and Karen residents that have already been using the grass lot to play sepak takraw. Working with … Read Full Article
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Survival Story
From a cinematic perspective, Minneapolis-based filmmaker Bryan Vue found that Gran Torino, the 2008 Clint Eastwood and Bee Vang film in which an old, bitter Korean War veteran befriends a Hmong … Read Full Article
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Bogus story of an immigration raid brings chaos to Hmong market
Hmong community leaders are scrambling to set the record straight this week after an online post falsely claimed that hundreds of people had been arrested by immigration officials at a popular St. Read Full Article
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Racism, xenophobia on the rise as coronavirus spreads
Kao Lor and his uncle Lee Lor were traveling through Indiana when they tried to get a room at a Super 8 Motel in the city of Plymouth. It didn’t work. The two relatives, who are of Hmong descent, … Read Full Article
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Raise a brat: This Sunday is Fred Usinger Day in Milwaukee
This week on Milwaukee’s longest running food podcast, we’re looking at a really cool Hmong pop-up, a sake-themed dinner at Screaming Tuna and some exciting news from Funky Fresh Spring Rolls. But … Read Full Article
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Ignorance, misinformation about coronavirus leads to racist attacks, experts say
Kao Lor and his uncle Lee Lor were traveling through Indiana when they tried to get a room at a Super 8 Motel in the city of Plymouth. It didn’t work. The two relatives, who are of Hmong descent, … Read Full Article
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Racist attacks against Asians are spreading faster than coronavirus
They can be so smart and be like, ‘Oh yeah, I developed this, I developed that.’ But like, yeah, you can’t even wipe your a**.” Two Hmong men traveling through Indiana say they faced additional … Read Full Article
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Letters: Oh, what ‘problems’ Minnesota has
Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes … Yeah, that’s it.. Sheriff Bob Fletcher’s letter to the editor, “Treat our Hmong and Lao neighbors with the respect they deserve” (Feb. 16), accurately describes our … Read Full Article