Omo Moses joins historian, curator, and author of Yellow Peril!, Jack Tchen for a virtual Cambridge Forum moderated by GBH’s Paris Alston on February 4th at 5:00 P.M.
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About the Cambridge Forum
Since 1967, Cambridge Forum has invited guest speakers to inform, explore and challenge audience preconceptions on a range of current and timeless subjects, through salient civilized discussions.
About Jack Tchen
Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen is a historian, curator, writer, and dumpster diver devoted to anti-racist, anti-colonialist democratic participatory storytelling, scholarship, and opening up archives, museums, organizations, and classroom spaces to the stories and realities of those excluded and deemed “unfit” in master narratives. Professor Tchen has been honored to be the Inaugural Clement A. Price Professor of Public History & Humanities at Rutgers University – Newark and Director of the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture & the Modern Experience, since Fall 2018. Decolonizing the histories of Newark, NYC, and our estuarial bioregion is his primary focus.
About Paris Alston
As the incoming host of the reimagined Basic Black and the former co-host of Morning Edition and The Wake Up podcast, Paris has done live coverage of Massachusetts' major elections and moments, including the unveiling of the Embrace monument, the 2023 national NAACP convention, and the 2024 Celtics Championship Parade. She also does community-based reporting for her award-winning original series "A Walk Down the Block," and produces regular segments for the original monthly mental health series "Wake Up Well."
Before joining Morning Edition, Paris was a host of the NPR podcast Consider This, produced in conjunction with GBH and WBUR. She also served as the host of GBH's digital series Keep it Social about social media trends, targeted at millennial and Gen Z audiences. She has reported on stories from around the world.
A North Carolina native, Paris is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied media and journalism and global studies. She recently earned a Social Impact MBA from Boston University. She is a member of the Boston and National Associations of Black Journalists and has worked extensively with print, digital, video, audio and social media.