At 3 a.m. on Thursday, the daughter of Hmong refugees awoke to the buzzing of her alarm clock. Mai Vang climbed out of bed, made herself a cup of tea and sat down in front of her laptop. For the next ...

The family of Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee, who’s Hmong American, erupted in hugs and cheers Thursday the moment she won gold in the women’s individual all-around gymnastics final, a reaction that ...

Jul. 23—EAU CLAIRE — The eyes of the Chippewa Valley Hmong community will be focused more than usual on the Olympics this summer. The athlete many Hmong residents will be watching is Sunisa "Suni" Lee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee stepped out on the global stage at the Tokyo Olympics, she wasn’t just representing Team USA. She ...

Team USA’s gold-medal gymnastics champion Sunisa “Suni” Lee is an 18-year-old Minnesota native who secured the top prize in the all-around contest during her Olympic debut in Tokyo. Lee earned a spot ...

Sunisa Lee had a brief message for her Hmong-speaking supporters at a Tuesday morning press conference. Speaking Hmong, a reporter asked Lee, the first Asian American woman to win gold in the Olympics ...

When Suni Lee won the gold medal in the women’s all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics, she made history in more ways than one. Lee not only became the first Asian-American woman gymnast to ...

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The story of Suni Lee’s rise as Olympic gold medalist in many ways reflects the larger struggles of the Hmong people as one of the country’s most marginalized Asian American groups. Lee, 18, winner of ...

Phillipe Thao is a writer and second-generation Hmong American who lives in St. Paul, Minn. In the Hmong culture, we have a saying, “Hmoob yuav tsum hlub Hmoob. Leej twg yuav hlub Hmoob?” The first ...