Man accused of exposing himself and sexually assaulting 10-year-old in St. Paul parking lot
A 10-year-old and a 13-year-old girl had just walked out the north exit of Hmong Village at 1101 Johnson Parkway to get something out of their mother’s car when the younger of the two felt a man wrap …
Bethel Partner Hmong College Prep Academy Revitalizes St. Paul Community
“Did I say ‘dedicated and passionate’?” Of all the things that could be said of Hmong College Prep Academy (HCPA) in St. Paul, Minnesota, those two words repeatedly rise to the top of the list for Bet…
Lively cross-cultural comedy ‘Korean Drama Addict’ gets its premiere in St. Paul
Director Randy Reyes, whose Theater Mu commissioned the piece, stages it expertly to maximize the humor even as the show confidently celebrates both Hmong and Korean culture. The acting company is led …
“100 Years and Counting”: The next chapter of the Minnesota Museum of American Art
In addition to her duties as registrar, Vang also works as the director of the Hmong Museum, which has led The M to have a close relationship with St. Paul’s large Hmong community. “This is a chance f…
Showdown in St. Paul: Two sheriffs clash over dysfunction in the Ramsey County Jail
He wanted to assemble the first Hmong Boy Scouts troupe in their neighborhood and organize a girls’ softball team. She grew up attending the early reading and swim programs run by the sheriff’s office …
St. Paul’s Minnesota Museum of American Art to re-open on December 2
The reopening of the M also includes the much-anticipated new Sifo Center for Creativity, which will offer studio classes for adults including ceramic Mesoamerican flute-making, Hmong embroidery, oil …
May Lee-Yang is a playwright, author, poet — and self-proclaimed lazy Hmong woman
May Lee-Yang says she’s a lazy Hmong woman. She’s said it on stages from Anchorage to Milwaukee. She’s said it at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and it’s the title of her blog. Despite her Hmong cultur…
Rising to leadership: How second-generation Somali-Americans are coming into their own in Minnesota
If that’s the case for the Somali-American community, I’d say that’s a very encouraging sign.” That’s also a familiar story among the Hmong community, which emerged in Minnesota in the 1970s. In the f…
Well-read on current events, Doris Ferree Clegg defended heartfelt causes
Wade. Later, she helped to resettle Hmong refugees in Minnesota. Clegg was always well-read on current events and politics, her children said. After deciding which candidates to support, she “would le…
The Good Life: Our summer traditions
Kao Kalia Yang, St. Paul, is author of “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir” and “The Song Poet.” Birthday choice My daughter was born on June 28. I won’t mention the year; she’d kill me. Every s…
Answer Man: How Hmong U.S. vets get burial rights
Bla Pao Yang was the first Hmong veteran in Rochester to receive full U.S. military burial rights for his service in “The Secret War” in Laos during the Vietnam War. A July 17 article about Yang’s ser…
Anchorage police investigate pair of fatal shootings
The St. Paul Police Department has arrested two people in connection with a fatal shooting at the Hmong Freedom Festival in Como Regional Park Sunday afternoon. A 16-year-old boy has been charged as a…
Grand openings, groundbreakings — so much on the move in St. Paul
(Photo courtesy: Joy of the People) In the mountainous southern region of China known as Hunan Province, Lucy wears a Hmong dress. She and four other Peanuts statues shipped out this year from Minneso…
Ground broken for China garden at Lake Phalen
The garden will include a replica of Changsha’s famous Aiwan Pavilion, a Hmong Heritage wall and an entrance arch. The replica pavillion was a gift from Changsha to St. Paul. As a part of the gift, Ch…
Why the people who serve as interpreters in Minnesota courts are not happy with those who run Minnesota courts
While Highers, an organizer with the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, arranged the chairs, she kept an eye on the door, asking the incoming attendees — most of whom were Spanish, Hmong an…
Can Minnesota have clean water without regulating fertilizer?
July 26: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at American Legion in Park Rapids. Bla Pao Yang, a Hmong U.S. Veteran who fought alongside U.S. soldiers in his native Laos during the Vietnam War (known as the “Secret War”), s…
Hmong vet gets the full military honors he championed
Bla Pao Yang, 74, was an American hero who spent much of his adult life fighting for the right to be recognized. On Monday, he became the first Hmong veteran in Rochester, Minn., to be accorded full m…
Civilized vs. primitive
Hmong girls in Minnesota are regularly gang raped by Hmong men, but the Hmong community — even the girls’ mothers — blame the rape victims, and the attacks go unreported. These aren’t cultures of st…
