SHEBOYGAN – A South High alum won the 2024 Miss Asian Global Pageant, becoming the first Hmong woman to claim the title in the competition’s nearly 40-year history. “I feel very honored,” Raine said. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHEBOYGAN – Sharing similar experiences and dealing with generational challenges as young Hmong women, South High junior Jansunee ...

Xay Yang, the advocate who accompanied Nou, is executive director of Transforming Generations, a St. Paul nonprofit that ...

Monica Lo has spent the last six years as an advocate and program coordinator at The Women’s Community, Inc., a nonprofit based in Wausau, Wisconsin. Credit: Kara Counard for Wisconsin Watch Monica Lo ...

Later this year, a group of Hmong American young women from Sacramento will travel to Laos to finally meet their yearlong pen pals in person. They are part of Hmong Youth Beyond Borders (HYBB), a ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – In a crowded refugee camp in Thailand, Misty Her often sneaked away to a school house and listened through a hole in the wall. She knew she could never attend, being Hmong and a ...

those who came to her father, the chief of the province, for help with their domineering husbands. Instead, at age 6 she decided that she would do something radical by the standard of her people, the ...

In more than three decades of years of living in Morganton, Duabhav Lee said she had never seen any storm hit her hometown the way Helene did. "It's heartbreaking," she said on Oct. 8. "There are ...

Pao Houa Her, “Girl with umbrella” (2016), digital Inkjet Archival Print, found image (image courtesy Bockley Gallery and the artist) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — At the age of four, in 1986, Pao Houa Her ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - There’s a new study underway looking at the low rates of breastfeeding in Hmong women. One student from Wausau’s Medical College of Wisconsin is partnering with Marshfield Clinic ...

This story was produced and originally published by Wisconsin Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom. It was made possible by donors like you. Monica Lo stayed silent for years as the man she ...