This guide offers reporters the tools to navigate the topic of religious persecution at home and abroad, offering background, resources, tips, suggestions and expert sources for your next story.

Wai Wai Nu, is a human rights advocate and former political prisoner from Myanmar who founded the Women’s Peace Network.

Oluwafunke Adeoye, or Funke as everyone calls her, is a lawyer, human rights defender and founding executive director of Hope Behind Bars Africa, an organization that promotes human rights and criminal justice reforms in Nigeria.

Alaina Morgan is a history professor at the University of Southern California, where is focuses on the African Diaspora and the historic utility of religion, in particular Islam, in racial liberation and anti-colonial movements of the mid- to late-twentieth century Atlantic world.

Cedric Harmon was the co-founder and executive director of Many Voices: A Black Church Movement for LGBTQ+ Justice and advocate for LGBTQ+ justice within Black church contexts.

Elizabeth McAlister is a professor at Wesleyan University with expertise in Afro-Caribbean religions including Haitian Vodou, Pentecostalism, race theory, transnational migration and evangelical spiritual warfare.

Donna Auston is an anthropologist, writer, and public intellectual whose body of work focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, protest and social movements, media representation and Islam in America. She is the Senior Program Officer at the Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York.

Michael Muhammad Knight is a scholar, author and gonzo journalist whose work covers Islamic studies, American Islam, hadith literature, gender studies, race and theories of the body.

In this guide, we offer background, resources, expert sources and related content to help you better report on the religious life of Black Americans.