In this personal essay, RadioActive's Rhea Beecher reflects on identity, family, religion, coming out, and embracing your true self.

My family is Mauritian, but when I take a DNA test, Mauritian didn’t even rank as an ethnicity. It can’t. Everyone from Mauritius is from somewhere else, or from many places at the same time.

I am a fourth-generation black American who joined the Air Force to continue honoring my family’s legacy; more than 30 family members have served in the United States Armed Forces, ...

I have known who I am and what I need to do to accomplish my goals of becoming smarter and stronger. ... LAFCU Write to Educate essay winners received $5,000 scholarship. Advertisement.

Juan Caminero of Cleveland won first place in the 2013 Hispanic Roundtable essay contest.Hispanic Roundtable, cleveland.com I wonder what a chief of the Taino tribe would say if he could see his ...