The Fourth of July Hmong Freedom Celebration, known simply by attendees as J4, is the largest gathering of Hmong people in the United States. Since the late 1970s, tens of thousands of Hmong from across the United States and the world gather in St. Paul, Minnesota for the annual summer sports and culture festival.
Category Archive: Asian and Pacific Islander History
In June 1942, Kenji and just over one hundred other children were taken from their parents and relocated to Manzanar.
Pandemic life has shown us that loneliness and togetherness are closer to each other than we once thought.
Seulghee Lee discusses pernicious misconceptions about anti-Asian hate and violence — notions often promoted by Asian American intellectuals themselves.
Stan Thangaraj on the city and the communities he loves, in an ocean of tragedy.
We are hopeful not because what is lost can be recovered, but because an irrecoverable loss does not determine one’s sense of self and future.