In the News
Our media database includes the latest news footage and archives of past United Hmong Of Massachusetts & our community articles. Here you will find the collection of publications and reports on the organization. Check out some of our featured articles below, from our past to the present.
Sun and culture mark 2023 Hmong Festival
September 4, 2023
Hmong New Year Festival returns with two beautiful days
Hmong New Year Festival back after 3 years
September 2, 2023
Festival being held in Saima Park Labor Day weekend
December 14, 2021
Fitchburg High School’s Helping Hands Community Service Club collecting winter gear
Massachusetts Hmong Are Taking Great Pride In Suni Lee's Olympic Gold
August 1, 2021
"For the Hmong people of Massachusetts, Sunisa ‘Suni’ Lee’s Tokyo Olympic performance has generated a tremendous outpouring of pride."
Massachusetts’ Hmong community celebrates Lee’s Olympic glory
July 31, 2021
"Suni Lee was fresh off her gold-medal-winning gymnastics performance at the Tokyo Olympics when Lisa Estrella Yang’s phone started “blowing up” with text messages from family members."
World Farmers give immigrants and refugees opportunities to grow
March 3, 2021
"At the Flats Mentor Farm in Lancaster, farmers are helping farmers."
Bags of rice handed out to residents in Laotion, Hmong communities
June 14, 2020
"Families of the Lao and Hmong communities gathered at the Wat Lao Dhammaraam Buddhist Temple on Saturday to pick up 25-pound bags of rice, which is considered a staple food."
FHS Helping Hands Club always willing to lend a hand
February 29, 2020
"When assistance is required, you can be sure the Helping Hands Community Service Club at the high school will be there to help."
First Hmong settlement in area well remembered
June 9, 2019
"While immigration and gradual population changes are often lost to history, the settling of the first Hmong family in the twin city area is well remembered"
Crop of immigrant farmers thrives in Lancaster
May 10, 2018
"In 2010, she said, there were about 50 Hmong farmers growing crops on the land, and then she was approached by a group of African women who wanted to farm. Now, around 84 percent of the organization’s farmers are African and 10 percent are Hmong, she said."
City still a hub for Hmong culture, but adjusting to changes
March 28, 2018
"Times have changed since a burst of immigration in the 1970s and into the early 1990s made Fitchburg a hub of Hmong culture in Massachusetts."
Farm plots offer some a ‘small piece of home’
June 20, 2016
"Vue Yang cleared the weeds surrounding her crops planted in rows across her 1-acre plot, revealing small green leaves just beginning to emerge from the ground."
Hmong celebrate traditions
September 2, 2012
Nyob Zoo Xyoo Tshiab! Happy New Year! Hmong from all over New England gathered at Saima Park for a two-day celebration of food, games, traditional dance and perhaps a budding romance or two.
Hmong stories woven into art in Groton show
March 31, 2011
"When the narrative nonfiction work “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down’’ by Anne Fadiman was chosen for the annual Groton Reads program, organizer Cheney Harper asked Deborah Santoro, curator of the Owen Smith Shuman Gallery at the Groton Public Library, to plan an art exhibition that would complement the literary selection."
Hmong story told in cloth at Groton gallery
March 17, 2011
"Like many displaced people, the Hmong turned to needlework to tell the story of their diaspora and became well-known for their vibrantly colored story cloths."
Massachusetts Hmong farmers included in USDA pilot project to extend the growing season while protecting the environmen
April 6, 2010
"Eight Hmong farmers will protect natural resources while extending the growing season for the specialty produce they raise at the Flats Mentor Farm in Lancaster, Mass. thanks to $85,936 in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture"
Hmong rapidly adapt to US
September 7, 2009
"Festival displays mix of old ways with modernity"
Getting the jump on 2009; Hmong Festival New Year in Saima Park
September 1, 2008
"The Hmong community of Central Massachusetts gathered at Saima Park this weekend to say goodbye to 2008 and welcome in the new year."
Hmong farmers test new tractor
May 5, 2008
"Hmong farmers Chia Yang, left, and his grandmother Song Vang Yang inspect the depth of newly turned dirt on a cooperative farm near the Bolton line. The farmers were given a new tractor by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture and Heifer International."
Hmong Celebration Packs Saima Park
September 4, 2007
"The Hmong New Year won't be officially observed until the end of December, but that didn't stop hundreds of families from celebrating the holiday Saturday at Saima Park."
Words to Live By
January 22, 2006
"Kao Her is a man in the middle. The young father, college student and Laos native spends hours translating for Hmong speakers in the English world of doctors' appointments, and on Saturdays, he teaches Hmong to teenagers in danger of forgetting their parents' native tongue."