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The Fresno Hmong had advocated for California bill AB78 which established a requirement for Southeast Asian history education in the California school system; this bill passed in 2003. [10] The first Hmong in the state elected to a California city council was Blong Xiong, who was elected to the Fresno city council in 2006. [11]
“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...
Thousands of Hmong community members gathered at Cal Expo this weekend to celebrate the Sacramento Hmong New Year festival, an annual cultural celebration in the city with the second-largest Hmong ...
California's first such newspaper was the Mirror of the Times, which began publishing in the mid-1850s. [1] Although the number of African Americans in California did not exceed 1,100 until the 20th-century, [ 2 ] seven African American newspapers were established in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 19th century.
California is the top state in the country with the largest Laotian population, which as of 2015 is 271,000 across the country. [12] Among the population of Laotians, Hmong people are counted as well. They are mostly in Northern and Central California, in Oakland, Richmond, Fresno, Sacramento, and Stockton. There are some in Southeast San Diego.
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Champion Newspapers 42,600 Weekly Community Claremont Courier: Claremont: 35,600 [2] Weekly Claremont local news Del Norte Triplicate: Crescent City: Country Media, Inc. Weekly The Mountain Messenger: Downieville 2,500 Weekly Sierra County news East Bay Express: Emeryville 49,766 Weekly The Coast News: Encinitas: Coast News Group 20,000 Weekly ...
When Communist regimes swept the region, they escaped to refugee camps in neighboring Thailand and, starting in the mid-1970s, resettled largely in California farm country and Minnesota’s ...