This week on Eastern Standard:
- How to push the civility reset button. A thoughtful conversation between two leaders of “Braver Angels,” a nationwide movement with a Kentucky chapter that is working to help people overcome loss of friends and family estrangements to the divisiveness of our times. Carolyn Dupont, host of our series “Civics and Civility: The Path to a Shared American Future” (and former state coordinator for Braver Angels), talks with the organization’s co-founder, Bill Doherty.
- The Trump administration has launched a broad effort to reshape how American history is told at federal sites. All interpretive signage in national parks has been reviewed, and some exhibits and signs on slavery, Native American mistreatment, and climate change have been removed or revised. But not without resistance. Our guest is Gerry Seavo James, Deputy Director of the Sierra Club “Outdoors for all” campaign.
- If you spend enough time around horse racing, you start to notice that some of the most visible talent on the track comes from Latino communities — jockeys, trainers, grooms — and yet their history often lives just out of frame. At the Keeneland Library in Lexington, a new exhibit brings those stories forward. It’s called Raíces: The Making of Latino Legacies in Racing. We visit with Keeneland archivist Roda Ferraro.
- Eastern Kentucky author Willie Carver chats with Eastern Standard Literary contributor Kevin Nance about his new novel, “Tore All to Pieces.”
