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4 Sep 2021
Broad Street is currently closed. Thank you all our wonderful, writers, artists, photographers, and contributors. Our archive is at broadstreetonline.org
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19 Aug 2020
Such a loss. Our sincere condolences.
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2 Aug 2020
We continue Mental Health Weekend with a remarkable poem by Mari Pack. @maribackpack #depression #depressionisreal #mentalheath
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1 Aug 2020
Is this the time to go off your meds? Kirsten Parkinson gave up antidepressants as the world entered a major depressive episode. Read the essay on our blog. #mentalhealth #depression #hope #quarantinelife
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24 Jul 2020
We are proud to share our first-ever #video feature, a short film about grief by Christine Sloan Stoddard. Mourning a great-uncle presages global mourning in 2020, at broadstreetonline.org/2020/0….
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#grief #DepressionIsReal #healing
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Broad Street Mag retweeted
20 Jul 2020
"Nothing begins good, but everything good begins. Everything can be revised, erased, or rearranged later. The courage of creation is making bad beginnings." ~ Kevin Ashton
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9 Jul 2020
Great advice from two masters of their crafts.
8 Jul 2020
"Start writing. I don't mean to sound dismissive, but START WRITING. There is NO SUCH THING as 'too late' in the arts. Trust me. START." ~ Patton Oswalt
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Broad Street Mag retweeted
2 Jul 2020
My coronavirus ramblings on our twisted reality, racism, the absence of sports, Zoom, and how much I just really dislike running (and so I make my basketball girls run instead). Thanks to @BroadStreetMag for publishing it!
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28 Jun 2020
Poem for a Sunday, a clarion call in a messed-up New World ... What are we going to do about it? By Frederick Ramey. #war #electionday #racism #blacklivesmatter broadstreetonline.org/2020/0…
24 Jun 2020
Check out our latest, a poem about writing through the Texas church shootings last December, by Frederick Ramey. broadstreetonline.org/2020/0… #GUNviolence #writing
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18 Jun 2020
"Read and write, and do these two things whenever you have a chance. Surround yourself with writers who are better than you. Don’t be afraid to fail, and don’t depend solely on external validation." ~ Karen Abbott
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15 Jun 2020
Flash nonfiction by our editorial director. Why not?
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11 Jun 2020
The #ConfederateMonuments in Richmond, Virginia, are coming down! Here's a bit on the history of the street designed to hold them and Richmonders' reactions to the change. Photographs by John Moser. #BlackLivesMatter #blacklivesmatterart #protests
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10 Jun 2020
Graffiti and peaceful #protests against #ConfederateMonuments in #RichmondVA, Broad Street's home town. #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #LoveWillWin broadstreetonline.org/2020/0…
10 Jun 2020
This story will make you weep. Amazing profile of a young woman's determination to become a pharmacist and better the world.
10 Jun 2020
What an honor! Our profile of #VCUPharmacy Pharm.D. graduate Anesa Hughes has been awarded a Silver for BEST VIDEO in CASE's Circle of Excellence Awards.
More than 2,700 entries from 28 countries AND WE WON. Proud of our students, alumni & team!
@AnesaHughes @VCUnews #CASECOE
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21 May 2020
Meditation, grocery shopping, #guilt: Passing time in #Detroit with Laura Bernstein-Machlay. medium.com/broad-street-blog…. #quarantinelife #meditation
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22 Apr 2020
In the half-century since the first #EarthDay, some 3 billion (BILLION!) birds have silently vanished. Beloved playwright and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler) responded to the harrowing finding with this extraordinary letter of apology to Mother Earth: brainpickings.org/2019/10/28…
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19 Apr 2020
#Quarantinelife wearing on you? Of course it is. Maybe you're turning to secret vices, like our Colleen Curran ... broadstreetonline.org/2020/0…
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16 Apr 2020
#QuarantineLife can be a good time to create. Visual artist @JonathanMachen talks about #shelteringinplace, #art, and #activism.
#http://broadstreetonline.org/2020/04/sheltering-in-place-with-jonathan-machen-an-artist-speaks-about-creativity-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/
12 Apr 2020
Should you sacrifice yourself to the pandemic? @LiseHaines increases the feistiness level in the room. #pandemic #covid19 #amwriting #quarantinelife broadstreetonline.org/2020/0…