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In the never-ending 'war' on drugs, the battle over maternal substance abuse, always on shifting and contested ground, is escalating. Medical researchers have become increasingly vocal in their protests against [...]

The Black Radical Congress (BRC) began with a belief that a new kind of formation was necessary to organize people of African descent for a revolutionary change, so as to be able to move from old ideas of vanguardism and centralism to ideas of self-organization and self-mobilization. African American feminists organization started with a knowledge base and experiences of community members and challenged the male-centered humanists by integrating gendered analysis to race consciousness.

Western researchers often do not incorporate the voices of African women in their research endeavors; and a serious engagement in women's health activism in Zimbabwe cannot happen without this preliminary step. Endarkened feminist epistemologies have theorized a social science that refuses to sidestep African women's perspectives. As a corrective to conceptual quarantining of Black (African and African diasporic) feminist thought, the exciting body of literature in the field broadly characterized as Africana feminism has helped to legitimate the languages, discourses, challenges, unique perspectives, divergent experiences, and intersecting oppressions and privileges of African women's and girls' lives. In this article, we develop an emerging Africana feminist methodology to propose building a scholarship and activism database as well as guide an exploratory discussion of health activism in Zimbabwe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on the criticism by Black feminists on American Christians' antiwar (dis)engagements. It argues that Black feminist organizational structures lend to progressive activism, particularly antiwar activism. It also explores the opposition by African-American Protestant Evangelical ministers and parishoners to white Protestant Evangelical leadership and their sentiments on the U.S. aggression in Afghanistan and the Middle East.