50 Years After, Voices from a Diaspora: Allen Đức Lương
Allen Đức Lương fled Vietnam with his family in 1975 after the Fall of Saigon and ended up in Portland, where his family opened one of the first Vietnamese grocery stores in the city. Today he is the founder of the Vietnamese Cultural Arts Alliance and the guardian of an over one-hundred-year-old family temple at his art gallery in Tigard.
Telling Our Story
May Saechao writes about how the Iu Mien community connects to history and traditions across time and distance.
Finding a Voice as an Advocate for Others
Sosan Amiri and Rozzell Medina speak about power, justice, education, and community.
What They Carried
The things four refugees brought with them when they came to Oregon. Story by Caitlin Dwyer, photos by Kim Oanh Nguyen
Making Peace with Chaos
Author Zahir Janmohamed and photographer Tojo Andrianarivo profile student refugees living and thriving in Portland despite uncertainty.
A Return Passage
Reporter Putsata Reang and photographer Kim Nguyen share their stories of leaving their home countries as refugees, meeting as students at the University of Oregon, and returning to Southeast Asia as journalists. A film produced by Dawn Jones for Oregon Humanities.
Full Circle
Two journalists return to their native countries to help other journalists express dissent.