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A Closer Look at Fresno’s Hmong Community

Quoted: When Chia Youyee Vang heard about Sunday night’s horrific shooting in Fresno, she pictured her brothers.

“They get together to watch Sunday Night Football, too,” said Ms. Vang, the director of the Hmong Diaspora Studies Program and a history professor at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. “It was so tragic because it was part of a normal routine in life — you’re not hiding in the jungle, you’re not in a war zone.”