Hmong Today

''Hmong Today'' (Xov-Xwm Hmoob) is an American nationwide newspaper documenting the news and culture of the Hmong American community.Stawicki, Elizabeth.
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" ''Minnesota Public Radio''. February 5, 2007. Retrieved on March 18, 2012. It is published biweekly and based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Because Hmong typically only read English, articles are usually in English.

Description

''Hmong Today'' publishes a biweekly print newspaper reporting on Hmong American and global Hmong news stories, especially about Saint Paul, Minnesota, the paper's headquarters and the largest concentration of Hmong in the United States. Founder Wameng Moua manages most aspects of the paper. Because Hmong typically only read English, articles are usually in English, and rarely in Hmong.

Along with '' Hmong Times'', ''Hmong Today'' has been called one of the Hmong community's "most enduring publications".

The publisher of the newspaper is Sang Moua and the president of the company is Sy Vang. Wameng Moua and Sang Mouacheupao founded ''Hmong Today'' in 2003 and published the first issue January 1, 2004. The website was developed and administered by Hmongmedia.

History

Sang Mouacheupao and Wameng Moua co-founded ''Hmong Today'' in 2003. Owners of '' Hmong Times'' Dick and Steve Wetzler offered to sell their half-share in ''Hmong Times'' to Moua in 2003 for , which Moua declined. A white businessman had implied that Hmong couldn't run a paper without the aid of white people, so Moua and Mouacheupao started the paper on their own.

The front-page story of the first volume and edition was about Hmong in Laos facing ongoing persecution after the Laotian Civil War. Entitled "Betrayal, Lost Hope, And the Forgotten Tribe" and written by Wameng Moua, it was published December 31, 2003. Hmong scholar Her Vang reports: "Moua had dedicated many volumes and editions of
''Hmong Today'' to the plight of the Hmong in Laos."

Around 2001 Kathy Mouacheupao joined the paper writing for the arts and entertainment section. Kathy is co-founder Wameng Moua's sister and at the time had recently become staff at Center for Hmong Arts and Talent.

Copies of ''Hmong Today'' with the headline about the 2007 murder of Cha Vang were distributed at his funeral.

Awards

At the Ethnic and Community Media Awards in 2008, Wameng Moua received honors for stories in two categories."." ''New America Media''. December 7, 2008. Retrieved on March 18, 2012.

Staff and leadership

Leadership

* Sang Moua, publisher
* Sy Vang, president
* Sang Mouacheupao, founder

Contributors

* Kathy Mouacheupao
* Wameng Moua

Archives

''Hmong Today'' is archived in multiple formats at several archives.

In 2022, print archives of ''Hmong Today'' were included in an expansion of the Hmong Cultural Center Museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Online archives of hmongtoday.com () are available at the Minnesota Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Society, and University of California, Irvine. The ''Hmong Today'' website went offline in 2012.

Select stories were republished via local outlets such as ''Twin Cities Daily Planet''.*

See also

* Hmong Times
* History of the Hmong in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
* List of newspapers in Minnesota

References

External links

Hmong Today
(archive of offline website)

hmongtoday.com archive by Minnesota Newspapers Online, archived by Minnesota Historical Society


* ttps://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910111624202121 Hmong today: the nation's Hmong newspaper, XOV-XWM HMOOB : newspaper articles index, Dec 2003 - April 2007at University of Wisconsin–Madison Library

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Hmong-American culture in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
National newspapers published in the United States
Newspapers published in Minnesota
Hmong American history in Minnesota