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Karama Neal, PhD
@karamaneal.bsky.social
Question fear.

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.
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 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.
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Author of Southern and speculative fiction
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November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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/....
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November 8, 2025 at 5:20 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.
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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
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.
September 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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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Southern Tenant Farmers Museum
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September 2, 2025 at 12:17 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!

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August 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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.
August 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#JanusSelfie on the Walkway over the Hudson.
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 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!
August 15, 2025 at 1:26 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-...
June 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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).
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May 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sold my first two stories and signed the contracts this week! #writersky
May 21, 2025 at 8:58 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.

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April 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
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
I am a clock.
March 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
What a treat to watch this for the first time in decades and show it to my daughter.

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Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level
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March 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
So glad to have this short piece out in the world. Hope you like it!

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Fearless - 101 Words
I approached the river—sun sparkling on the water, egrets on the banks, pretty little gray shells at my feet, tugboat […]
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February 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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.

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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
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
Donate blood.
Every 56 days.
Save up to three lives.
Thank Charles Drew.
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February 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I’m not sure how I made it this fare without knowing this! #BHM #Arkansas
February 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM