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Lee is from St. Paul, Minn., where many Hmong families like her own resettled in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. After the ethnic group, which lives across Laos, China and Vietnam, was recruited by the CIA to fight in a covert military operation in Laos, now known as the Secret War, the Hmong population … Read more

An intimate searching for meaning after his mother’s death, Vuong’s poems will explore, according to his publisher, “personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America.”

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the CUNY Comeback Program, a sweeping plan to eliminate up to $125 million in unpaid debt for at least 50,000 students who attended CUNY and suffered financial hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative is one of the nation’s largest student debt forgiveness plans of its kind. Additionally, students … Read more

The Olympics are always framed as a chance to root for your home team, as medal counts keep track of which countries are leading in hardware, or news coverage drives the competition narrative between major world powers. But for many people of color, the Games are also a way to show solidarity — not around … Read more

An alumna and media professional turned professor found her academic path in the rise of K-pop.

How a complicated and expansive academic theory developed during the 1980s has become a hot-button political issue 40 years later.