Karama Neal, PhD
@karamaneal.bsky.social
Question fear.
www.karamaneal.com
Lower Mississippi River Basin, Jua tatu.
www.karamaneal.com
Lower Mississippi River Basin, Jua tatu.
Calling Arkansas creatives!
Share a picture, video, or text of your or another Arkansan's creative work of resistance as part of the #FallOfFreedom #ARroundup.
Links will be posted at linktr.ee/FOF.ARroundup for revie, sharing, and inspiration for action.
Share a picture, video, or text of your or another Arkansan's creative work of resistance as part of the #FallOfFreedom #ARroundup.
Links will be posted at linktr.ee/FOF.ARroundup for revie, sharing, and inspiration for action.
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Calling Arkansas creatives!
Share a picture, video, or text of your or another Arkansan's creative work of resistance as part of the #FallOfFreedom #ARroundup.
Links will be posted at linktr.ee/FOF.ARroundup for revie, sharing, and inspiration for action.
Share a picture, video, or text of your or another Arkansan's creative work of resistance as part of the #FallOfFreedom #ARroundup.
Links will be posted at linktr.ee/FOF.ARroundup for revie, sharing, and inspiration for action.
So excited to have my flash story, "Passings" published in the Autumn 2025 issue of The Fool's World! Check it out along with my other fiction at linktr.ee/karama.neal.
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Author of Southern and speculative fiction
linktr.ee
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
So excited to have my flash story, "Passings" published in the Autumn 2025 issue of The Fool's World! Check it out along with my other fiction at linktr.ee/karama.neal.
I’m thrilled to have been invited to speak at TEDx Rochester 2025 on the theme “Life’s Mosaic: Piecing Together Our Journey.” If you're in the area, please join us on Saturday, November 15, 2025, at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.
Tickets are still available at www.ted.com/tedx/events/....
Tickets are still available at www.ted.com/tedx/events/....
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November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’m thrilled to have been invited to speak at TEDx Rochester 2025 on the theme “Life’s Mosaic: Piecing Together Our Journey.” If you're in the area, please join us on Saturday, November 15, 2025, at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.
Tickets are still available at www.ted.com/tedx/events/....
Tickets are still available at www.ted.com/tedx/events/....
While at USDA Rural Development, I had the honor of representing the Department on the #Rural #Justice Taskforce organized by LSC.gov. Now, I'm excited to join #LegalAid experts and champions for Rural Reach: Access to Justice That Meets People Where They Are.
Join online at lnkd.in/gedE9g-y.
Join online at lnkd.in/gedE9g-y.
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
While at USDA Rural Development, I had the honor of representing the Department on the #Rural #Justice Taskforce organized by LSC.gov. Now, I'm excited to join #LegalAid experts and champions for Rural Reach: Access to Justice That Meets People Where They Are.
Join online at lnkd.in/gedE9g-y.
Join online at lnkd.in/gedE9g-y.
Really enjoyed the Mississippi Center for Justice Gala and Social Justice Brunch. Such great work and and inspiration for us all. Had to wait until I was back in Arkansas to post this though, since Bluesky can’t operate in MS.
October 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Really enjoyed the Mississippi Center for Justice Gala and Social Justice Brunch. Such great work and and inspiration for us all. Had to wait until I was back in Arkansas to post this though, since Bluesky can’t operate in MS.
Indeed. The shots are available. Just scheduled my Covid and flu shots in #Arkansas.
🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
September 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Indeed. The shots are available. Just scheduled my Covid and flu shots in #Arkansas.
Seems an appropriate day to promote my favorite Arkansas museum - the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum which is all about the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
Happy Labor Day!
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Happy Labor Day!
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sout...
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Southern Tenant Farmers Museum
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September 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Seems an appropriate day to promote my favorite Arkansas museum - the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum which is all about the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
Happy Labor Day!
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sout...
stfm.astate.edu
Happy Labor Day!
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sout...
stfm.astate.edu
I’m so pleased that the team at @oursistories.bsky.social published my short story, Pine. It was such a pleasure to work with them. Hope you like it too!
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
Sistories
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August 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I’m so pleased that the team at @oursistories.bsky.social published my short story, Pine. It was such a pleasure to work with them. Hope you like it too!
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
Glad to join the crowd gathered by the Little Rock Chapter of the NAACP to screen Ava DuVernay’s 13th in honor of Slavery Remembrance Month.
It was that bad.
It is that bad.
It was that bad.
It is that bad.
August 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Glad to join the crowd gathered by the Little Rock Chapter of the NAACP to screen Ava DuVernay’s 13th in honor of Slavery Remembrance Month.
It was that bad.
It is that bad.
It was that bad.
It is that bad.
#JanusSelfie on the Walkway over the Hudson.
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#JanusSelfie on the Walkway over the Hudson.
I’m thrilled to have my short fiction featured in the @foofarawpress.bsky.social podcast! It’s only five minutes - check it out!
And thanks to the team for the great reading, production, and artwork. Love it!
And thanks to the team for the great reading, production, and artwork. Love it!
Decision Tree by Karama Neal https://foofaraw.press/decision-tree-by-karama-neal/
Decision Tree by Karama Neal
a prescient path forward
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August 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I’m thrilled to have my short fiction featured in the @foofarawpress.bsky.social podcast! It’s only five minutes - check it out!
And thanks to the team for the great reading, production, and artwork. Love it!
And thanks to the team for the great reading, production, and artwork. Love it!
Listening to an unabridged live reading of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” is exactly the way to start this day.
loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852Fre...
loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852Fre...
a black and white poster of frederick douglass
Alt: Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
- Frederick Douglass (pictured)
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July 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Listening to an unabridged live reading of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” is exactly the way to start this day.
loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852Fre...
loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852Fre...
Excited for Juneteenth, my favorite holiday. Thinking of my family who were enslaved - Mose Neal, Andy Suttles, Griffin Henry Belk (pictured), Jim Neal, Burrell Green (USCT Regiment 11, Company B), Jane Green, Sarah Suttles, Elizabeth Neal, and more.
See also karamaneal.medium.com/on-the-19th-...
See also karamaneal.medium.com/on-the-19th-...
June 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Excited for Juneteenth, my favorite holiday. Thinking of my family who were enslaved - Mose Neal, Andy Suttles, Griffin Henry Belk (pictured), Jim Neal, Burrell Green (USCT Regiment 11, Company B), Jane Green, Sarah Suttles, Elizabeth Neal, and more.
See also karamaneal.medium.com/on-the-19th-...
See also karamaneal.medium.com/on-the-19th-...
Do it now. Only two days least to register your thoughts.
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
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May 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Do it now. Only two days least to register your thoughts.
Sold my first two stories and signed the contracts this week! #writersky
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Sold my first two stories and signed the contracts this week! #writersky
Glad to speak at this week's Heirs' Property Ethical Research Forum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta on the alignment between bioethics and heirs' property research ethics. Also got to see friends and family in Atlanta some attending the ABFE meeting.
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web.cvent.com/event/7cdd56...
April 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Glad to speak at this week's Heirs' Property Ethical Research Forum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta on the alignment between bioethics and heirs' property research ethics. Also got to see friends and family in Atlanta some attending the ABFE meeting.
web.cvent.com/event/7cdd56...
web.cvent.com/event/7cdd56...
I'm so glad my dad, Olly Neal, attended the reunion and 65th anniversary event commemorating the sit-ins at the Cossitt (Technical) Library in Memphis. He joined the other Lemoyne Owen Students who kicked off integration of the city's library and museums. www.youtube.com/shorts/7wmX-...
Olly Neal at 65th anniversary event for the sit-ins at the Cossitt (Technical) Library in Memphis.
YouTube video by Karama Neal
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March 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I'm so glad my dad, Olly Neal, attended the reunion and 65th anniversary event commemorating the sit-ins at the Cossitt (Technical) Library in Memphis. He joined the other Lemoyne Owen Students who kicked off integration of the city's library and museums. www.youtube.com/shorts/7wmX-...
Celebrating the 10 years of A Suite: Pi, 7 pieces composed using a musical scale with the same number of notes as numerals found in the pi of the chosen base. The first sheet music to be included in the Brautigan Library. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFcH... #PiDay #Math #Music #BrautiganLibrary
A Suite Pi - Seven songs in celebration of Pi Day
YouTube video by Karama Neal
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March 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Celebrating the 10 years of A Suite: Pi, 7 pieces composed using a musical scale with the same number of notes as numerals found in the pi of the chosen base. The first sheet music to be included in the Brautigan Library. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFcH... #PiDay #Math #Music #BrautiganLibrary
What a treat to watch this for the first time in decades and show it to my daughter.
youtu.be/u9dhO0iCLww
youtu.be/u9dhO0iCLww
Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level
YouTube video by miraclemart
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March 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
What a treat to watch this for the first time in decades and show it to my daughter.
youtu.be/u9dhO0iCLww
youtu.be/u9dhO0iCLww
Finally and excitedly reading The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and intrigued to see a story element so similar to what happened in 1959 at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, Arkansas. So sad that these histories are so common.
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/negr...
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/negr...
Negro Boys Industrial School Fire of 1959 - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
On March 5, 1959, twenty-one African American boys burned to death inside a dormitory at an Arkansas reform school in Wrightsville (Pulaski County). The ...
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February 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Finally and excitedly reading The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and intrigued to see a story element so similar to what happened in 1959 at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, Arkansas. So sad that these histories are so common.
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/negr...
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/negr...
Great time moderating a rural entrepreneurship session with fantastic panelists at yesterday's ESO Summit on entrepreneurship in Arkansas. Big thanks to panelists Veronica Ozura, Janell Owens Reeves, and Latanyua T. Robinson, and to session organizer Itzel Velazquez.
February 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Great time moderating a rural entrepreneurship session with fantastic panelists at yesterday's ESO Summit on entrepreneurship in Arkansas. Big thanks to panelists Veronica Ozura, Janell Owens Reeves, and Latanyua T. Robinson, and to session organizer Itzel Velazquez.
February 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A Black History Month and President’s Day two-fer: The first African American to run for president was George Edwin Taylor, born in Little Rock in 1857. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/geor...
George Edwin Taylor (1857–1925) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
George Edwin Taylor was a native of Arkansas and the first African-American standard-bearer of a national political party to run for the office of ...
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February 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM