Minnesota’s Karen community is seeing more visits from immigration officials after the Trump administration announced that ...

Nearly 700 people gathered at Lincoln High School on Sunday to celebrate the new year of the Karen people, an ethnic group from Thailand and Myanmar. Nebraska is home to nearly 6,500 Karen refugees ...

Bryce Lundstrom laughs with a Karen woman named Pee Haw Paw in Minnesota. Lundstrom served the Karen people in their native language for two years on a church service mission. (Bryce Lundstrom) ...

Now that the holidays are winding down, people are looking forward to the new year. I’m not just talking about New Year’s Eve festivities, I’m talking about a number of cultural events that take place ...

SACRAMENTO, CA — For California’s Karen people, an annual Martyrs’ Day gathering is a reminder of the support they are still fighting for. Most ethnic minorities who have immigrated to the U.S. from ...

Growing up in Egypt, no one could pronounce my name correctly. Then, when I moved to Canada, people questioned whether it was my real name. Complaining about a name feels like a first-world problem, ...

ST PAUL, Minn — "You have to start from scratch. You have to learn everything from scratch," said Eh Tah Khu, co-executive director of the Karen Organization of Minnesota. Eh Tah Khu recalls his ...

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Doctor Pia Jolliffe teaches modern Japanese history at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She also researches children’s education and the history of the Jesuit mission in the 16th and ...