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Wista
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Writer, Editor, Educator, Podcast Host "Celebrating Us!", Criminal Justice Advocate, Public Speaker, and Animal Lover.

Website: wistajohnson.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@celebratingus
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#NewPost: Black Resistance 2025 www.wistajohnson.com/blog/black-r...
Black Resistance 2025 — WISTA JOHNSON
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October 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#NewPost: Myths and Misconceptions About Domestic Violence, Perpetrators, and Survivors www.wistajohnson.com/blog/myths-a...
Myths and Misconceptions About Domestic Violence, Perpetrators, and Survivors — WISTA JOHNSON
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month On January 8, 1988, the front page of the New York Times Metro section reported the killingHe of 36-year-old Willie Jean Dukes on a New York City sub...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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#NewEpisode: Listen to "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Loud" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/say-... #podcast
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October 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Listen to "Black Americans' losses under federal health cuts and losses" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/blac...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Black Sis-tory: Sylvia E. Mathis

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Black Sis-tory: Sylvia E. Mathis, first Black female FBI special agent — WISTA JOHNSON
On February 17, 1976, Sylvia Elizabeth Mathis, 26, was the third Black female recruit to undergo the FBI’s rigorous training but the only one to successfully complete it to become a special agent. Be...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Listen to "ICE: Coming to a (Black) neighborhood near you?" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/ice-...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Listen to "Traveling Abroad While Black" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/trav...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Listen to "What's Going On?" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/what...
What's Going On?
On this weeks episode Black women in the news, Black men and boys remain targets for violence, Grab bag, plus more.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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AI Fears: Should we worry? — WISTA JOHNSON
“Imagine a world where chatbots replace humans for business or personal interactions—from job interviews to mental health counseling.”
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October 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Black women and fibroid tumors: Many endure prolonged symptoms before proper diagnosis and treatment. — WISTA JOHNSON
If you’re a Black woman in America, every day you confront challenges to your physical, mental, and emotional health in the face of medical biases, systemic racism, limited or no health insurance, and...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Listen to "Beyond the Bar" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/beyo...
Beyond the Bar - Celebrating Us!
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September 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#NewEpisode: Listen to "Who are Foundational Black Americans and Moorish Americans?" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/who-... #podcast
Who are Foundational Black Americans and Moorish Americans?
On this weeks epsiode Wista takes a look into FBA and Moorish Americans, National Guards deployment to cities with Black Democratic Mayors, Trymaine Lee's new b
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September 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Happy Taco Tuesday from Celebrating Us!
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September 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Listen to "Suicide Rates Rising Among Black Women" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/suic...
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September 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Listen to "Beyond the Bars: Black, female, elderly, and incarcerated" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/beyo...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Sergeant Major Evelyn Pollard (Retired): "The Army shaped every part of me ...." — WISTA JOHNSON
Dear Army, As I retire from the U.S. Army after 23 years of service—21 of them on active duty—I reflect on the profound impact this journey has had on my life. I joined the Army as a quiet young wo...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Listen to "217 Days in a NYC Shelter: Marie's Story" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/217-...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Pet Peeves (or things that make me go "aaargh!”) — WISTA JOHNSON
Each day, Americans wake up to a slew of media stories about increasing civil unrest, rising inflation, devastating cuts to Medicaid, and deepening economic uncertainty. And if that isn’t enough, we ...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Listen to "Anti-Black Women Propaganda" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/anti...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Listen to "Justice For Saniyah Cheatham" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/just...
Justice For Saniyah Cheatham - Celebrating Us!
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August 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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"If current trends continue, Black women will wait over 100 years for equal pay." * — WISTA JOHNSON
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day fell on July 10 this year. According to the Equal Pay Today website , the date symbolizes, “the additional time Black women in the United States must work into the curre...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Listen to "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Woman behind the headlines" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/just...
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July 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Listen to "Being a Black (Female) Journalist (Pt. 2)" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/bein...
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July 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Listen to "Celebrating Us!: Being a Black (Female) Journalist (Pt.1)" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/cele...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Listen to "Celebrating Us!: A Real Conversation About Caregiving" by Celebrating Us! via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/cele...
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June 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM