Read a Nov. 14, 2012 Wall Street Journal article about the increasing political influence of hispanics in the U.S.

The University of San Diego Center for the Study of Latino/a Catholicism is an organization dedicated to studying the theological influence of hispanics and Catholicism on society and church in the U.S. The center maintains an extensive list of Internet resources related to U.S. Hispanic and Latin American Catholicism.

Read about the history of the Nation of Islam and Beliefnet.com’s FAQs about the Nation of Islam.

A gathering of top U.S. Hispanic business leaders in Allenspark, Colo., considered the spiritual, cultural and economic role of U.S. Hispanics, according to an Aug. 21, 2006, Catholic News Agency article.

Tremper Longman III is the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif. He has been active in Bible translation and is a member of the committee that produced the New Living Translation.

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has an online exhibit about Malcolm X.

Lori Anne Ferrell is a professor of early modern history and literature at Claremont Graduate University in California. She wrote The Bible and the People.

Read an article from The Root about tackling Islamophobia, much like The Cosby Show challenged African-American stereotypes.

Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He has translated books of the Bible and written extensively on the literary aspects of the Bible, most recently Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible.