California Can Reconceive the Arts by Offering More Choices and Ways to Participate
These activities often are passed along through family heritage. For example, an important part of traditional Hmong cultural activity, among Southeast Asian immigrants in the San Joaquin Valley, is a private home ceremony that involves playing the qeej …
Hear My Voice report highlights academic challenges of California’s young men of color
They found disturbing trends among young men of color, which Ed Trust-West defines as African American, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander Hmong, or Laotian. Compared to their peers, these young men experience significant opportunity and achievement …
Western student gains valuable experiences at Cannes Film Festival
“We all worked really hard on it. I was so pleased with how it turned out.” Xiong said she became interested in film at an early age, growing up in a Hmong family in California. Her family didn’t have a television growing up, and Xiong learned to …
New details released in the murder of 69-year-old Hmong man
FRESNO, Calif. – The oldest son of a man who was shot and killed in his own home, speaks only to Eyewitness News. It was a home invasion that ended in the deaths of three people. Fresno Police is now releasing new details. Chief Jerry Dyer confirmed the …
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Past exhibits have included art from the Sikhs in India’s Punjab region, the Hmong from Southeast Asia, Mexican and Peruvian cultures and Greek Orthodox iconography. Tickets are only 10 USD for adults, 5 USD for children 6-17 years of age, and free for …
Hmong should buy permanent Fresno site for New Year party
Dreams can come true if we learn to respect each other and work together. The recent announcement of a new group to host “the world’s largest” Hmong New Year in Fresno for this year brings up an old age question of why the Fresno Hmong community, the …
Today’s Must-Reads For Entrepreneurs: Lessons From Failed Startups And Successful Instagram Users
The California Green Rush has given Hmong immigrants an entrepreneurial opportunity: “California is home to the largest population of Hmong in the United States, with nearly 100,000, and most initially settled in the Central Valley. Over the last decade …
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Chris Sununu (R) to act on in early June.” More here. SPEAKING OF ‘JOINT’ EMPLOYERS: Hmong immigrants are applying agricultural expertise acquired harvesting opium poppies in Asia to California weed, Thomas Fuller writes in the New York Times.
California’s ‘green rush’ draws Hmong immigrants
Mai Vue, founder of Conscious Cannabis Resources, in Hayfork, Calif., April 14, 2017. The nonprofit organization helps Hmong marijuana farmers – many of whom, Vue said, had been “scared to even go to the grocery store” when they first moved to the …
California’s ‘Green Rush’ Takes Hmong Back to Their Opium-Growing Roots
HAYFORK, Calif. — The red and purple opium poppies that his family grew on a mountainside half a world away were filled with an intoxicating, sticky sap that his mother traded for silver coins to feed her children and pay for their escape. Adam Lee …
Without Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno
A few decades ago, this neighborhood was teeming with Hmong refugees. The rents are still cheap, about $450 for a two bedroom unit. But it isn’t always safe. “There have been a number of attacks from the neighborhood gangs, anywhere from throwing …
Hospital Impact: Bridge cultural gaps to provide optimal patient care
And the movement has already started to take hold. Mercy Medical Center in Merced, California, where many patients are Hmong from northern Laos, created a hospital shaman program designed to build a bridge with this community, as a 2009 New York Times …
State Lines: California poetry: Mai Der Vang’s ‘Transmigration’
Mai Der Vang’s award-winning first book, “Afterland,” shares the experience of Hmong refugees who fled to the United States at the end of the Vietnam War. “Transmigration” is a central poem in the collection. In a prayerful tone, the speaker …
University announces 2017 Deans’ Graduate Medalists
In addition to helping with college events and the Future Farmers of America, he volunteers an average of 12 hours a week in the Hmong community, serving as a mentor to youth. “My next goal is to share my agricultural knowledge gained at Fresno State …
Sacramento Hmong New Year 2014 2015 First Day
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Preserving the Legacy of Fresno’s Hmong B-Boys
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 a part of hip-hop, and can we be so authentically?”
New group to organize Hmong New Year festival in Fresno
After nearly two decades, the Hmong International New Year Foundation will no longer be hosting the Hmong New Year Festival at the Fresno Fairgrounds. Fairground officials said a new group, Hmong Cultural New Year Celebration, Inc., will replace the …
Far from a Burden, Refugees Are a Net Positive Economically
Take a look at the 100-plus year history of the Armenian community in Fresno, California, and in recent years, the Hmong; Bosnians who fled the 1990s civil war and relocated to St. Louis; Vietnamese in cities such as San Jose and Houston; or the Haitians …
