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Removing lead-based paint: there's a right way and a wrong way (Image: Shutterstock)

On this week's edition:

Historian Clayborne Carson, keeper of the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: One person’s wokeism is another’s democracy

A safe method to remove toxic lead paint from pre-1978 homes

A new book about the nation’s oldest non-ticketed Shakespeare Festival. It’s here in Kentucky.

Crystal Jones investigates the ways we listen to music and how technology has changed both listening to and creating music.

Recently on Eastern Standard

Coal train along river in Perry County, Kentucky (Image by Chris Begley)

Episode Ten of the Eastern Standard documentary series RISE explores connections between surface mining and the flooding of downstream communities, as well as efforts to speed the reclamation of idled mines using methods designed to reduce or even prevent runoff.

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