St. Paul Murals Project
On Friday, Sept. 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. mural artist Vanghoua Anthony Vue, along with the Minnesota Museum of American Art, will unveil a new mural at the Hmong Village shopping center, located at 1001 Johnson Parkway. The free, family-friendly event is a …
August in Minnesota: What I learned across the state
As I prepare for the upcoming federal Farm Bill debate, I got the chance to visit the Hmong American Farmers Association farm near Coates, where I toured the operation. Later, I heard about unique needs and challenges these farmers face in cooperatively …
Freeloader Friday: 66 free things to do this weekend (including original ‘Star Wars’ art)
Smithsonian Museum Day Live Snacks, activities, and free admission. Noon to 4 p.m. Hmong Cultural Center of Minnesota, 375 University Ave., St. Paul; 651-917-9937. Live music (Apollo Cobra, XIII Arrows), meat giveaways, games, brats with kraut, and a …
What’s Happening This Weekend
In Minneapolis and St. Paul those museums are: Gibbs Farm, Historic Fort Snelling, the Hmong Cultural Center of Minnesota, the James J. Hill House, the American Museum of Asmat Art at St. Thomas, the Hennepin History Museum and the Mill City Museum.
Franken: August in Minnesota: What I learned during visits across the state
As I prepare for the upcoming federal Farm Bill debate, I got the chance to visit the Hmong American Farmers Association farm near Coates, where I toured the operation. Later, I heard about unique needs and challenges these farmers face in cooperatively …
When Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough
Mr. McMaster added, however, that the federal government’s broad racial categories conceal some of the success the school has had in serving underrepresented groups, such as Minnesota’s Hmong and Somali immigrant communities. In California, elite …
New Effort to Honor Khmer Krom Fighters Allied With US in Vietnam War
To that end, he teamed up with Scott Walker, an advocate for the Hmong and Montagnard fighters who, after the war, settled in Minnesota. Walker succeeded in obtaining recognition for their efforts from the state Legislature in 2012. Obtaining that same …
Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, ‘fighting for utopia’
His talk was presented by Minnesota Humanities Center in a series on war and memory. He was interviewed by Hmong-American writer Kao Kalia Yang (“The Latehomecomer”) of St. Paul. “There was inhumanity and violence on all sides” during the war, Nguyen said …
Rising exodus of students puts more pressure on Minnesota schools
The most popular destination? A charter school in the city’s Como neighborhood, Hmong College Prep Academy (HCPA), with more than 1,100 St. Paul students and a seemingly insatiable appetite for growth. This summer, work crews turned gym space into …
Ken Burns’ ‘Vietnam’ inspires Minnesota-focused efforts by TPT
Having a Minnesota-based broadcaster shepherd the film made sense since the Twin Cities is home to more Hmong-Americans than any other urban area in the United States. Director Lisa Blackstone chose to interview a dozen local Hmong people in the TPT …
Dai Thao raises more than $171,000 in run for St. Paul mayor
Many of Thao’s contributions came from donors with Hmong surnames — in Minnesota and from as far away as California. Thao, who as a child came to America with his family from a refugee camp in Thailand, is attempting to become the first Hmong mayor in …
CINEMA CHAT: Cinetopia 2017 Selections Return With More Limited Engagements
In honor of the film’s 50th anniversary, “Titicut Follies” will screen on September 20-21. Special Screenings Downtown In “Growing Up Hmong at the Crossroads,” four children of former Hmong refugees embark from their home in Minnesota on a milestone …
Cinetopia 2017 Selections Return With More Limited Engagements
In honor of the film’s 50th anniversary, “Titicut Follies” will screen on September 20-21. Special Screenings Downtown In “Growing Up Hmong at the Crossroads,” four children of former Hmong refugees embark from their home in Minnesota on a milestone …
Fundraising complete for Judge Larry Cohen memorial plaza in downtown St. Paul
The plaza, at 15 W. Kellogg Blvd., is expected to recognize Cohen’s work with under-served populations, such as the many Hmong immigrants who were just beginning to arrive in St. Paul when he took office. Cohen died in September 2016 at the age of 83.
One of the crowd, again, in Minnesota
Minnesota in the 1970s, under the leadership of Walter Mondale, welcomed a large population of Hmong and Vietnamese immigrants to the state; from the 1990s until 2012 the Somali population grew to around 57,000; and currently Minnesota welcomes the Karen …
State’s school boards not as diverse as student populations
The tiny town of Walnut Grove in southwestern Minnesota has a thriving Hmong community that makes up 35 percent of the population. A quarter of the local school district’s students are Asian. But there are still no Hmong school board members.
La Crosse farmers markets: The couple that vends together…
Part of the driving force behind the markets’ resurgence in the past couple of decades has been the agrarian talent of Hmong families living in our area. Other cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota would say the same. Most of the Hmong people in Laos were …
Best of Neighborhood News 9/7: Remembering artist J. Otis Powell‽
A multimillion dollar expansion for Hmong College Prep Academy is steadily progressing, according to Hmong Times. The new additions to the St. Paul charter school will bring 55 new classrooms to accommodate up to 2,200 students.
