Team USA scored another Tokyo 2020 win on Thursday, with Sunisa Lee bagging a gold medal in the women's gymnastics all-around final. Lee, whose parents emigrated from Laos, is the first-ever Hmong ...
Translating in a healthcare setting is difficult for many adult children of Hmong immigrants due to cultural barriers and differences in both the English and Hmong languages. Ever since she was a ...
In March 2019, a day before her 16th birthday and just over a year before the Olympic Trials were supposed to begin, Sunisa “Suni” Lee appeared on 3 Hmong TV, one of the most popular Hmong-language ...
When gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee stepped out on the global stage at the Tokyo Olympics, she wasn’t just representing Team USA. She was also representing the Hmong community around the world. And the ...
When Suni Lee won gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gymnastics all-around competition Thursday, her Hmong community also won. Lee is the first Hmong-American to make the U.S. Olympic team and is ...
Chia Xay Vang will never forget the sounds of B-52s dropping bombs. He was 4 years old, and it was the Vietnam War. With his parents and three siblings, he fled from war-torn Laos to neighboring ...
Jan. 7, 2011 was a difficult day at Hmong-language station KJAY 1430 AM in Sacramento, Calif. The staff had learned that after a year in the hospital, Vang Pao had passed away the day before from ...