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Welcoming Week activities planned in Fargo-Moorhead
S. • “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir” book talk, community book discussion led by Kevin Brooks, 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Community Education Building, 1587 30th Ave. S., Moorhead. • Concordia College Faith, Reason and World Affairs Symposium …
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Frustrated with Sacramento leaders, armed citizen patrols respond to robberies of Asians
Speakers took turns addressing the crowd in Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Hmong. But that unity evaporated by the end of the meeting as a long-running dispute within the Indochinese community spilled over, Phong said. Almost half the crowd walked out …
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Exhibit to highlight Guam Pulitzer winner’s career
Abroad, Crisostomo created the series “The Leftover People,” documenting the last wave of Hmong refugees making their way from Thailand to Sacramento. The series earned him the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for the Disadvantaged in photography in 2005.
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Breaking the Ice: Family’s vision inspired Asian Pacific advocate
Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Sia Her, as executive director of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, carries out the vision that her late maternal grandfather, a high-ranking Hmong military leader, had for his grandchildren.
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Thanks, Obama, For Acknowledging Lao War Victims, But Stop Creating More War Victims
To circumvent the 1962 Geneva Conventions prohibiting foreign interference in the country and get around the woeful performance of the Laotian army, the CIA created its own clandestine army among the Hmong whom legendary CIA agent Edward Lansdale …
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Talk radio host and lifelong educator vie for assembly seat in Wausau
Wright’s first education job as an ESL teacher for the Wausau School District was made possible in part by the city’s large population of Hmong refugees. After fighting for the CIA during the Vietnam War, the Hmong were violently driven to refugee …
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St. Paul loses a civic giant: Larry Cohen, mayor, advocate and judge
He also set up a program called Hmong circles of peace to help resolve disputes. Cohen’s first foray into elective office came when he was voted onto the Ramsey County Board. He ran for mayor in 1971 and served two terms, until 1976. When he took office …
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Remembering the Courage of the CIA’s Friends
I know something about that legacy—particularly the bits that went unmentioned by Mr. Obama. My own thoughts are with our most loyal and dedicated allies from that era, the dwindling Hmong of northern Laos, for whom…
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Former St. Paul Mayor Larry Cohen Dies At 83
While on the bench, Cohen worked to assimilate Hmong into the criminal justice system by developing sentencing circles, aimed at reaching agreement with all parties on a sentence, and restorative justice programs, both issues important to the Hmong …
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Thousands descend downtown for 35th annual festival
A group of women from the Hmong Christian Life Center located in Hickory were holding a fundraiser for their church along one part of West Union Street. They setup an assembly line to make egg rolls and empanadas. This will be the group’s fourth year …
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Preparing the way: Mentors train how to handle incoming refugees
It makes us smarter, it makes us more exposed and more tolerant.” In the early 1980s Hampton taught English to newly arrived Hmong refugees and continued teaching English as Second Language classes at Emma Dickinson School and the Lifelong Learning Center.
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Obama: Thanks for Acknowledging Lao War Victims but Stop Creating More War Victims
To circumvent the 1962 Geneva Conventions prohibiting foreign interference in the country and get around the woeful performance of the Laotian army, the CIA created its own clandestine army among the Hmong whom legendary CIA agent Edward Lansdale …
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Why are Asian Americans Politically Invisible?
High school dropout rates are led by Southeast Asians, including the Hmong and the Vietnamese.” Most Americans, she said, “don’t see that because we lump everyone together. We don’t see the pain and hardship.” Micro polling to disaggregate data …
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The resegregation of America
They hand out food and chips to the youths and dance the cha-cha with people from the neighborhood – a mixed group of African-Americans, Latinos, and Hmong. In one corner of the park, residents feed apples to a police horse. In another, they climb inside …
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Small business-Rising Sun Picture
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Hmong woman keeps families together
Her daughter calls Mae Vang’s life a Cinderella story. Born in Laos during the Vietnam War, orphaned early, raised by a mean aunt, coming to America, marrying early as is her culture’s tradition, learning to parent as a teenager and eventually going to …
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Honor for our old allies in Laos is long overdue
The announcements — lauded by many Hmong and Laotian Americans — will help rectify the ongoing deadly consequences of a war ended long ago. It’s an important step, one of humanitarian importance that will surely save life and limb. But there is more to …
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Hmong: US President Recognizes Long-Term Effects of Bombing Laos During Vietnam War
The US President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday, 6 September 2016, that Washington will spend US$90 million over three years to clean up unexploded bombs in Laos. Hmong refugees and their descendants in the US welcomed the initiative and hope that it …