Hmong Diaspora

This is the final installment in a three-part series “50 Years in the Valley: The Hmong Journey from War to Home.” Part Three looks toward the future, following the people who are guiding the next chapter of Hmong life in the Valley.

This is the second installment in a three-part series called “50 Years in the Valley: The Hmong Journey from War to Home,” focusing on the first generation of Hmong Americans born and raised in the United States. It follows their struggles with poverty, gangs, and cultural pressure as they came of age between two worlds.

Part one of a three part special report “50 years in the Valley: The Hmong Journey from War to Home,” talking to people from all walks of life in the Valley’s Hmong community about the events that shaped their lives as refugees, and the path ahead 50 years later as leaders in California’s Central Valley and beyond.

Fresno poet Mai Der Vang looks back on a dark chapter of history in her new collection “Yellow Rain.” Hmong refugees fleeing Laos at the end of the…

Lisa Lee Herrick reads from her recent essay Eating Thirty In Fresno: Finding Home At Hmong New Year in the online publication Boom California and talks…