On this day in 1857, George Edwin Taylor, the first African American to run for the office of president of the United States, was born in Little Rock, #Arkansas, one of twelve children of an enslaved and a free black woman. Read more at: 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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Pleased to have a short piece in this month’s SciFanSat! Check out “Driver” at scifansat.com/bibi/?book=S...

SciFanSat Magazine@scifansat.bsky.social · 2w ago

AVAILABLE NOW: Fight for the future of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More with stories written by the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow! The July issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out at scifansat.com! Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers, just like you!

So grateful for the @therazormag.bsky.social publication of my short story, Christmas Day, and the beautiful reading by Inger Tudor and artwork by Meredith Dobbs! Hope you enjoy it! therazormag.com/articles/chr...

Christmas Day - The Razor — Literary Magazine — Gotham Writers Workshop

What I’m ‘bout to say don’t matter now. That’s why I’m finally saying it.  Papa’s gone. Them two white men been gone. And I’m near ‘bout gone. So I’m not worried. For a long time, I thought I was a ki...

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Hope you enjoy this short piece, Labor That Uplifts. Thanks to QB for selecting it!

Quotidian Bagatelle@quotatelle.bsky.social · last mo.

“🥖” Labor That Uplifts https://qb.foofaraw.press/labor-that-uplifts/

Thrilled to have two pieces of short fiction selected for this month’s issue of #SciFanSat! Check them out! Hope you enjoy! scifansat.com/bibi/?book=S...

SciFanSat Magazine@scifansat.bsky.social · last mo.

AVAILABLE NOW: Make contact with stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More written by the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow! The June issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out at scifansat.com! Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers, just like you!

Published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Don’t forget to vote for your favorite piece and author that you’d like to see win May’s Bartleby B. Boar nomination! The peer poll is open for 10 more days before it closes at 11:59 PM EST on June 18th!

I’m thrilled to have my microfiction included in this month’s edition of @scifansat.bsky.social! Please check it out; it’s a quick read. scifansat.com/bibi/?book=S...

SciFanSat Magazine@scifansat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AVAILABLE NOW: Grab the lifeline we’re throwing you and enjoy stories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and More written by the #SFF authors of today and tomorrow! The May issue of #SciFanSat Magazine is out at scifansat.com! Many thanks to all who contributed, and to our readers, just like you!

If you believe your vote doesn’t matter, why are they trying so hard to take it from you?

“🥖” Flashbang https://qb.foofaraw.press/flashbang/

Flashbang

KARAMA NEAL

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Check out, Flashbang, my latest micro fiction with @quotatelle.bsky.social. Takes less than two minutes to read. Hope you like it. qb.foofaraw.press/flashbang/

Flashbang

KARAMA NEAL

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Happy #PiDay! Celebrate with A Suite: Pi. Each of the 7 pieces uses a musical scale with the same number of notes as found in pi of the chosen base, with each note of the scale corresponding to a digit of pi. See comment for sheet music. #Math #Music #PiDay2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFcH...

A Suite Pi - Seven songs in celebration of Pi Day

YouTube video by Karama Neal

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Check it out! So excited that my story, Legion, is included in this issue. Enjoy!

FIYAH Literary Magazine@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend! fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

The AR state motto is Regnat Populus, The People Rule! But that is threatened. Protect direct #democracy in #Arkansas! Sign the Arkansas Ballot Measure Rights Amendment petition, learn more, get involved (e.g. canvass), and spread the word. Learn more at www.protectarrights.org

Take a four minute listen to my story, Decision Tree, and if you like it, vote for it! Thanks! foofaraw.press/decision-tre...

🪾 Decision Tree by Karama Neal

a prescient path forward

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foofaraw press@foofarawpress.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Go vote for your favorite Foofaraw stories from 2025! And share the link widely with your friends, fellow writers, and readers! Winners from season five and six will be included in our Best Of Anthology along with the inaugural winners of The Foofs. tally.so/r/mK9Jyg

Check out my short piece, Diviner 3000TM—Smart Divining Rod, Lightweight, in Issue 53 of ScribesMICRO - www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-53.html/ Who has used / pretended to use a divining rod?

Just thrilled to be included!

FIYAH Literary Magazine@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Announcing our new TOC + cover art! Stories from Karama Neal, Timothy Ngome, Irene W Collins, Jordan Alexander, & Ella N'Diaye—poetry by Donnie Moreland, upfromsumdirt, & Aishatu Ado. Kymani Gayle with the 🔥🔥🔥 art! Behold our latest coming your way in mid January: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/12/15/f...

So excited by and grateful for this nomination by @foofarawpress.bsky.social! Please check out my story, Decision Tree - foofaraw.press/decision-tre...

🪾 Decision Tree by Karama Neal

a prescient path forward

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foofaraw press@foofarawpress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

2026 Microfiction & Small Fictions nominations #Nominations https://foofaraw.press/2026-micro-small-nominations/ 〄

Living near so many relatives and near relatives, I use this concept frequently. So glad I finally thought of a word for it. For example, Al Green is my catenulate cousin. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

Urban Dictionary: Catenulate relative

Catenulate relative: A catenulate relative is not related to you by blood but has the same relation to your blood relative as you do to that same blood...

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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.

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/....

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.

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.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 11mo ago

🚨 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.

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

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...

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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.

#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!

foofaraw press@foofarawpress.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🪾 Decision Tree by Karama Neal https://foofaraw.press/decision-tree-by-karama-neal/

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...

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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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