The way Elvis Thao sees it, Hmong rock band the Sounders, and their frontman Thai Thao (no relation), are "never going to die." "(Thai Thao) will be that Jimi Hendrix, that Babe Ruth, he's the ...

Kwv txhiaj is a Hmong musical form that has its origins in southern China and Southeast Asia, is several centuries old and is kept alive through its singers. One of them happens to call the US Midwest ...

Pang Her Vang, the president of the Mong United Eqauality Association, poses for a portrait in the Kling Public Media Center in St. Paul on Wednesday. CHRIS FARRELL: This is "Minnesota Now." I'm Chris ...

Thailand has held 149 Hmong people, including men, women, and ninety children in a two-room cell for the past nine months with no access to the outside. Their only access to drinking, cooking, and ...

This article originally appeared on PRI.org on May 26, 2016, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. Think of kwv txhiaj as song poetry. Or better yet, think of it like a Hmong ...