Asian-American shoppers are stockpiling rice amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while other shoppers are hoarding and stockpiling on tissues and toilet paper. “It feels like people were preparing for an apocalypse,” said Dustin Her, an employee at Hmong Town Market in Milwaukee. “They keep coming and buying all the rice. We’re only left with the unpopular brand.” When Her saw friends and family posting videos on Facebook about the rice shortage in Asian grocery stores, he thought they were joking and

Hmong advocates and leaders in Wisconsin and throughout the nation are concerned over the Trump’s administration deportation plan of 4,500 Hmong, Lao, Khmu, Mien, Lahu, Thai Lue and Thai Dam residents who served their full sentences in American courts. Advocates learned that the U.S. Agency of International Development is funding an integration program in Laos for deportees from the U.S. The integration program suggested that former refugees with no connection to Laos can face deportation. Thi

Conversations about potential employment filled the Wisconsin Room at UW-Milwaukee between employers and potential employees at the Diversity Career Fair Thursday morning to late afternoon. Hair: clean cut. Dress code: on point. Attitude: confident and full of initiative. Vanaro Thorn is a senior at DePaul University in Chicago and sophomore at UWM. He is father of a 4-year-old who travel between the two campuses. He was one of the potential employees to attend the Diversity Career Fair at UWM.

Juliana Rattin, a senior at UW-Milwaukee, spent more than six hours working on a class project in a single sitting, and she was feeling stressed out. She decided to attend Crafting as Self-Care on a Tuesday night with her friends. Hosted by Student Involvement, the event allowed Rattin to take time away from her studies and focus on herself during a busy semester. At the crafting table, Rattin and other students broke plates, collected beads and mixed colored powders. They made the broken plate