“The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father” by Kao Kalia Yang was the book selected for the fifth annual One Book, One Community program. The first program, “Hmong 101: The Cultural Background,” will take ...
Members in the Hmong Community are meeting with the Fresno School Board right now to propose a new Charter School aimed at educating their children. One parent we spoke with says when it comes to ...
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – Local students are getting some hands on education about culture and language. The Hmong Cultural Immersion Summer School provides kids the chance to work in a local garden ...
Jason Yang initially needed some prompting before agreeing to take qeej lessons. The 17-year-old North High School student began learning the traditional Hmong reed instrument made of six bamboo pipes ...
It’s presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than others. But 11-year-old Irene Her stands in front of the classroom, ...
WAUSAU – A summer camp designed to teach Hmong students about their own heritage has doubled in size in two years. About 120 students are enrolled in Camp Phoojywg-Friend, which offers basic Hmong ...
Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...
Go inside a Hmong dual language immersion program in Fresno. Go inside a Hmong dual language immersion program in Fresno, one of only five such programs in the nation. Aired 02/16/2022 Inside ...
A Hmong shaman blesses a pregnant woman so that she will have a safe birth. (Photo: Shuka Kalantari) A Hmong shaman dressed in an ornate red and pink costume is standing in a crowded living room in ...
Yia Vang has a set of classic stories he loves to tell. He's just told me the one about the guy who comes up after a Hmong cooking demonstration, cups Vang's big right hand in both of his, looks up ...
After spending her early childhood belting out gospel songs in Twin Cities churches, Jasmine Tierra knew she had an album in her. In November, Tierra debuted her first full-length adult work, “One ...