Category: Featured
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Dane County groups optimistic, cautious about community justice center
Seven community organizations held a series of conversations with residents around what they hoped a community justice center might accomplish in Dane County. Read Full Article
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Fairylike bamboo forest offers new livelihoods to mountainous residents in Vietnam
During the early days of the Year of the Buffalo, residents of Na Hang Tua Chu, a mountainous village of Mu Cang Chai District in Vietnam’s Yen Bai Province, were excited to welcome the very first … Read Full Article
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Two teens face homicide charges for heinous rape and murder of handicapped Asian-American woman
Two teenagers from Milwaukee are facing homicide charges for the 2020 rape and muder of a mentally handicapped Hmong Asian-American woman. Read Full Article
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Queens lawmaker calls for government to translate COVID-19 materials into multiple languages
The measure would require agencies to provide written resources in 20 languages including Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Creole, French, Greek, Haitian, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Japanese, Korean … Read Full Article
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OP-ED: Mother tongue lessons need a boost
Many of these languages are found in remote border villages such as the Karen, Hmong, and Lahu communities where May, Fah, and Muey grew up. May’s mother tongue, for example, is Sgaw Karen, while Fah … Read Full Article
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A Poverty of Color: Debunking the myth about disparities being more related to “Class” than “Race”
Many of the huge disparities we see today are a direct result of White people being given access to homeownership which fostered generational wealth building to the exclusion of people of color. Many … Read Full Article
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Notable Minority Executives: Chris Her-Xiong
Born in Laos, Chris Her-Xiong, the founder and executive director of the Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA), and her family left the country in 1975, escaping from communist forces when she was … Read Full Article
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Mother tongue lessons need boost
Fah and Muey look like ordinary Thai girls, perhaps a bit shorter and shyer than many of their classmates at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University. But thanks to a new teacher recruitment programme, they are … Read Full Article