November 16, 2009 - On the 30th anniversary in the United States' post-Vietnam War experience, MPR’s Dan Olson takes a look back. 1979 was the year that the U.S., led by Vice President Walter Mondale, convinced world leaders to come to the rescue of more than a million so-called "boat people."
January 6, 2010 - Members of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities are trying to keep pressure on the U. S. government to help recently repatriated Hmong in Laos. They're also trying to find out what's going to happen to their relatives.
January 6, 2010 - More than 300 members of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities turned out for a town hall-style meeting in St. Paul last night. They wanted to find out what's happened to their relatives who were deported from Thailand to Laos late last month. And they also want to keep pressure on the U.S. government to help their relatives. Mee Vang is with the Hmong Diaspora Leadership Council, which organized last night's meeting.
January 6, 2010 - Members of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities are trying to keep pressure on the U.S. government to help their relatives in Laos. More than 4-thousand Hmong were deported to Laos from Thailand late last month. Mee Vang is with the Hmong Diaspora Leadership Council, which sponsored a town hall style meeting last night in St. Paul. She says she wants the U.S. to monitor the treatment of the deported.
January 11, 2010 - MPR’s Tim Nelson reports on how the Karen have adopted Minnesota as their new home, 10 years after the first of the Karen escaped the oppressive regime that rules Myanmar, and began to immigrate to the Twin Cities.
January 25, 2010 - As part of MPR News series “Civil War Kids: Young Somalis in Minnesota,” MPR’s Laura Yuen reports on how after escaping war, some Somali young men in Minnesota fall prey to gangs, guns and religious radicalization.
January 26, 2010 - As part of MPR News series “Civil War Kids: Young Somalis in Minnesota,” MPR’s Laura Yuen reports on how many young Somali-Americans are struggling with mental illness tied to war experiences, and the efforts to provide assistance to them.
January 27, 2010 - As part of MPR News series “Civil War Kids: Young Somalis in Minnesota,” MPR’s Laura Yuen reports on how countless young Somalis in Minnesota are succeeding, despite grim statistics in their community.
January 27, 2010 - About 50 media outlets in Minnesota will receive some of the $140-million dollars the U.S. Census Bureau is spending on advertising for the decennial count. The Bureau posted the outlets they've contracted with on its website yesterday. The "ad buys" include about a dozen Minnesota radio stations, and about three dozen newspapers across the state. Steve Wetzler is president of TCB Marketing, which handles advertising for many ethnic media outlets in the Twin Cities. He says papers that service the state's largest ethnic groups -- African and African American, Hispanic, Native American and Asian -- will get ads. But he says census officials also left some gaping holes.
February 1, 2010 - Minneapolis Congressman Keith Ellison says he's concerned that the multi-million-dollar advertising campaign the U.S. Census Bureau launched last month left out several local radio stations that serve the Spanish-, Somali- and Hmong-speaking populations. He says those stations can help get the census message out. But Steve Jost of the Census Bureau says those communities will get the census message through national advertising that will air on those stations. Jost also says Census officials are not done buying ads.