Each November, the Hmong American Farmers Association offers artwork people can buy alongside produce grown by Hmong farmers. This year’s art — candles featuring flowers from a Hmong family’s field — comes with a good story.

The U.S. government once deemed Hmong refugees unsuitable for American resettlement. Yang See, who had worked for the CIA, made the case they belonged.

Libraries in Minnesota offer an ever-expanding catalog of resources and services. At the Rondo Community Library in St. Paul there are story times in several different languages, a book, vinyl and DVD collection and reference librarians prepared to help with anything — really anything.

After her own divorce, Mailee Yang set out to learn more about the pressures faced by divorced women in her community. She surveyed hundreds of Hmong American women across the country about their experiences.

“Through the community garden, I made many friends. I got to know how to grow vegetables around here,” one gardener said. “And I keep learning. We kind of complete each other. We learn from each other.”

1A interviewed Somalis in Minneapolis Thursday on a variety of issues related to their experiences coming to and living in Minnesota. It’s expected to be broadcast on Sept. 5.

A soccer field is the first big project of the Meadow Park Initiative, a new community organizing effort in Rochester aimed at building trust, safety and stability in a neighborhood where Somali and Latino immigrants have come together from opposite sides of the globe to build their lives in America.

The lure of nearly $26,000 in total prize money helps fuel high turnout for the Midwest Hmong Outdoors’ bass fishing tournament — but it’s the sense of community draws even more.

The Great Minnesota Get-Together is becoming increasingly diverse as the state’s growing immigrant and refugee communities embrace the tradition.

“We are probably a larger community than people may necessarily understand or appreciate, because we don’t fall within a specific box,” a community member said.

A Minnesota summer camp is helping connect city kids and children of refugees to the state’s outdoor summer culture, often for the first time.

More than 300 families have migrated to Minnesota from Puerto Rico in the aftermath of a devastating 2017 hurricane. Many are rebuilding their lives here, though they face barriers. Some aren’t sure if they’ll stay.

At least a dozen Somali authors have published or are publishing children’s books, novels and memoirs about their community. The effort, centered in Minnesota, is revolutionizing the community’s age-old oral tradition.

Started from humble beginnings, the festival on the Capitol grounds showcased the culture, food and music of India.“This is an occasion where our political leaders can see us,” one leader says.