Have you ever tried to negotiate with your employer for better pay, better working conditions or to fight an unfair termination only to realize your lone voice of reason had little to no affect? That’s probably about the same time you wished there was a labor union to help voice your grievances. Most people underestimate [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere
March 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Discrimination at Its Worst
January 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
*If ever there was a case study that supports the need for the new national health care law it has to be the case against Dr. Kermit Gosnell. He’s the Philadelphia general practicioner charged with murder last week. Prosecutors say Gosnell performed late-term abortions in his home-based clinic – a procedure for which he was [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Going Fishing
May 11, 2010 by 2 Comments
*I met him at the gym as he sat waist deep in the Jacuzzi. I had just exited the steam room and almost walked past him still trying to clear my vision when he spoke to me. We exchanged a quick hello, then without even a pause he asked me out on a date. I [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: New Orleans Jazz Festival
May 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
*I’ve never met anyone who attended the New Orleans Jazz Festival and didn’t have great things to say about their experience. On the gulf coast the city is known as the mecca of good music and great food, thus the name the Big Easy. And that’s a combination I rarely pass up. As an airline [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: In My Best Interest
April 27, 2010 by 1 Comment
*When I left my first career job eighteen years ago I rolled over my company 401(k) into an independent retirement account. And that’s where it has sat mostly untouched ever since. A decade ago I was smart enough to invest some of the money in oil stocks. So even though I pay more as a [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Stalker Potential
April 20, 2010 by 4 Comments
*There’s a guy at the gym where I work out who always is watching me. The fact that he notices me is not the problem. At 5’11” I’m taller than most people and not hard to miss even in a crowd. It’s the way he looks at me; as if I’m a steak dinner and [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Crossing the Invisible Line
April 13, 2010 by 2 Comments
*Whenever I return to the Washington, D.C. metro area for a visit, I always can tell when I’ve arrived – not by my surroundings – but by the behavior of the people there. Just like the Mason-Dixon, there’s an invisible line of disregard for each other that sets that region apart from anyplace in the [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Subjectively Offensive
April 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment
*I wasn’t in downtown Dallas on the day Erykah Badu got buttnaked in Dealey Plaza. But just like most people, I heard about it and I’ve seen still shots of the video. It took guts to get naked in front of dozens of strangers, although I do it in the gym locker room before and [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: An Avalanche of Evidence
March 30, 2010 by 1 Comment
*When did professional sports become a league full of gun toting, weed smoking, steroid shooting wannabe athletes? My guess is it happened when the coach was so busy smoking crack that he failed to tell his players ‘do as I say, not as I do,’ and team owners didn’t bother to say anything because they [...]
The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Ulterior Motives
March 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
*Since the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-Au-Prince at least a dozen Americans have been accused of illegally trying to take children out of their native Haiti under the guise of giving them a better life in the United States. Is it just me or do some White people have a need to posses people with [...]
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