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The Hmong Cultural Center officially launched its new museum in a dedicated storefront at University and Western in St. Paul on December 2, 2021.

Hmong New Year season typically starts after the harvest season. In the US, Hmong people begin celebrating as early as mid-to-late October. In Laos and Thailand, Hmong New Year lasts for a month – almost all of December!

2021 was a very eventful year for the Hmong community locally, nationally and beyond. Although COVID-19 ranked as the number one story for many in the state of Minnesota and beyond, many other happenings were going on among the Hmong community. 

The METRO Blue Line Extension project is seeking applications from community members for a new Anti-Displacement Workgroup.

Organizing for Hmong America congratulates KaYing Yang on her appointment to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

Supplier diversity is a crucial part of an organization’s success. It’s a way for companies to promote innovation, cultivate networking, boost hiring, and perhaps most important of all, a way for companies to experience the many benefits of diversity while taking steps to close the racial equity gap.

Minnesota is offering low-The METRO Blue Line Extension project is seeking applications from community members for a new Anti-Displacement Workgroup.

After 18 months of advocacy and support from CAAL, an immigration judge granted Ge Vang relief, terminating his deportation order on July 19, 2021. 

These steps can help protect your money and your information. How a simple email or text message could open you up to fraud.

Recently the Board of Trustees for the United Hmong Family, Inc. released the following statement.

Shauntel Burzynski is a member of the talent acquisition team at North Memorial Health. Caprice Overstreet has spent the last 20+ years at North Memorial Health in a variety of roles and currently leads a team of hospital greeters.

Do you have questions about Medicare enrollment? Are your prescription drug costs too high? The annual Medicare open enrollment period is now through December 7, 2021, and the Minnesota Senior LinkAge Line® is ready to help you find the best Medicare plan for you.

Winter in Falcon Heights, Minnesota will not be the same this year as the 23rd annual Hmong New Year festival at Lee and Rose Warner Coliseum on the Minnesota State Fair Grounds is called off due to COVID-19.

If you drive a car, walk, bicycle, live in a house or apartment, breathe the air, have a pet, discard trash, flush the toilet, or eat or drink in a restaurant, then, as a resident of Minneapolis, you have a vested interest in who runs our city.

The Hmong American Farmers Association, a pioneer in diverse agriculture, will soon own 155 acres in Dakota County. A plan to modernize access to Highway 52, the main artery between Rochester and the Twin Cities, could encroach on small family farm plots.

There are two initiatives on the November 2 ballot: in Minneapolis, Question 3 is a vague, untried, and untested measure that asks voters to give new, additional powers to the City Council, so they can regulate rents on private residential property.

Studies* show that small businesses owned by people of color, including those owned by Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian American individuals, among others, have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

The United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and its fragmented rescue of our loyal Afghan allies leaves many Hmong Americans with a heavy-hearted sense of Déjà vu.

The high cost of housing is not a new problem, but it is one that has been exacerbated by the pandemic and its economic consequences.

What if I told you that a man went from having little to no attention and feeling lonely to becoming a Hollywood actor? What if I told you that this same man was a Hmong American?

Most people think paper and plastic are always recyclable, but that is not the case. Not all paper and plastic can be recycled.

Dear Hmong Dreamer,
Have you met the Vang Brothers?

But there is another story you’ve not heard. One of significance. One which can change your life. It is a story about a Hmong-American man called Ho-Shia Aaron Thao Kogan.

Lou Thao has been a Realtor® in the Twin Cities for seven years. She became a Realtor® to help growth in her community through both homeownership and investment.

Sunisa Lee (Suni) is among one of these Hmong refugee descendants that carries within her blood and DNA centuries of generational trauma and oppression.

“True happiness is when you improve yourself. It is not when you see others do poorly and elevate yourself by default,” says Yer Xiong, a phenomenal first-generation Hmong woman of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

Saturday May 22nd at the Roseville’s Central Park, Asian Media Access, Coalition of Asian American Leaders, along with Asian Minnesotan Alliance for Justice (AMAJ) board members, hosted the Community Safety Training with more than 30 Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) to learn more Safety Patrol techniques to better stop Anti-Asian Hate.

Once upon a time there lived a little Hmong girl in a village. She was the eighth of nine children to her mother who was the first of two wives.

Like many Hmong Americans of the Secret War generation, Ge Xaochay Thao (Ntxoov Zeb Thoj) joined the army in his early teens. On July 17, many Hmong dignitaries and local elected officials will gather to pay their final respect Thao Ge, as his is known.

The Board of the United Hmong Family, Inc. has decided again to cancel the HIFF this year.  Health and safety remain the two most important factors.

A strong field of twelve developers of color has been selected for the LISC Twin Cities inaugural Developers of Color Capacity Building Initiative.

The Bush Foundation today announced the 2021 Bush Fellows, 24 visionary individuals who are leading transformative change in their communities. The Fellows hail from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the 23 Native nations that share the same geography.

The American Heart Association Social Impact Fund invests in sustainable, community-led solutions addressing health inequalities in under-resourced communities.

Asian Americans recorded the fastest population growth rate among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States between 2000 and 2019.

Delaying retirement has become common for many Americans, either because they saved too little or they just want to continue working because they enjoy it.

According to new data from the Minneapolis Area REALTORS® and the Saint Paul Area Association of REALTORS®, the median price of a home in the 16-county Twin Cities metro increased 10.3% from last March to a record high of $327,500.