Paris Alston

Bosstown

Co-Host, Morning Edition at GBH News (Boston, MA)

Legacy is on the line.

Articles

To be female, patriotic and Black

Jan 22, 2025 | baystatebanner.com | Paris Alston

A familiar face has retaken the White House, promising to pursue America’s “manifest destiny” and restore the country back to its former glory. For some, that evokes a feeling of patriotism and nostalgia for the days of American exceptionalism. For those who have been the exception to those ideals, it is repudiating.
To be female, Black and patriotic

Jan 17, 2025 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

January 17, 2025 In a matter of days, a familiar face will retake the White House, marking the final blow to an historic candidate: Vice President Kamala Harris. While there will inevitably be a lot of pomp and circumstance surrounding the Capitol, I will be thinking about the time I spilled some tea with Harris, about a year and a half ago. My GBH News colleague Jim Braude and I were interviewing Harris for the 114th annual NAACP Convention in Boston.
Wake Up Well: Talking about mental health at the end of the year

Dec 4, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

December 04, 2024 Mark Herz: This is Morning Edition. It’s the first Wednesday of the month, and that means it’s time for Wake Up Well, the monthly mental health series brought to us by GBH is Paris Alston. For the past 12 months, the series has touched on everything from relationships and finances to anxiety around climate change and politics.
What do you really want to say at Thanksgiving dinner?

Nov 26, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

November 26, 2024 The holiday season is a time to gather with family and friends, but those gatherings can lead to some tough conversations. Sometimes, you’ll wish you could just say how you truly feel. Janice Rosario is ready for questions about whether she’ll have any more kids. “Heck no,” she told GBH News. Josue Gonzalez also wants to tell his loved ones to keep it chill. But for his family, that means turning off the news.
Wake Up Well: Talking politics with family members who disagree

Nov 6, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

November 06, 2024 Mark Herz: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. It’s the first Wednesday of the month, which means it’s time for Wake Up Well, the monthly mental health series brought to us by GBH’s Paris Alston. As the election results roll in, emotions are running high. How do you manage discussing the results with people around you? To find out, Paris spoke with Omar Ruiz, a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of Talk. Think.
A Walk Down the Block: Boston's Spooky Streets Halloween parties

Oct 30, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

October 31, 2024 Let’s take a walk down the block. Today we’re on Walnut Avenue in the Parkside area of Jamaica Plain. It’s full of large, colorful multi-family houses, many of which are decorated for Halloween. We stop in front of Dorothy Fennell’s home, which is made up into a graveyard full of skeletons, tombstones and “Wizard of Oz”–style apple trees. “If I say where I live, they’re like, ‘You’re the Halloween house,’” Fennell said.
How Black-owned small businesses find support in smaller Massachusetts cities

Oct 30, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

October 30, 2024 Paris Alston: This is GBH is Morning Edition. Today kicks off the sixth annual Mass Black Expo at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Thousands of attendees are expected to go to panels and workshops focused on building Black wealth and hear from keynote speakers like Federal Reserve Bank President Susan M. Collins and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey.
Boston Common vs Public Garden: Why do these neighboring parks feel so different?

Oct 16, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

October 16, 2024 Paris Alston: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. A recent Reddit post asked the question: What explains the major difference in the general vibe of the Boston Common versus the Public Garden? Redditor JulianBrandt19 went on to say, 'The Public Garden is a positively lovely environment, kept meticulously neat.
Wake Up Well: Fear can be an invitation to learn

Oct 2, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

October 02, 2024 Paris Alston: This is GBH’s Morning Edition. It’s the first Wednesday of the month, which means it’s time for our monthly mental health series, Wake Up Well. And since October is full of plenty of frights and haunts, today we’re talking about fear. Joining us for this conversation is Ajay Satpute, a psychology professor at Northeastern University who studies the neuroscience of emotion, fear and social cognition. Ajay, good morning.
Question 4: Both sides explain the option to legalize psychedelics in Massachusetts

Oct 2, 2024 | wgbh.org | Paris Alston

October 02, 2024 Psychedelics like psilocybin mushrooms are legal in two states: Colorado and Oregon. Now Massachusetts voters are being asked if they want the Bay State to follow in their footsteps. Question 4 would legalize a few kinds of natural psychedelics, allow people to grow them at home, and set up a framework for facilities where adults can take them under professional supervision.