Ishmael Muhammad is the national assistant minister of the Nation of Islam. He is widely considered to be a possible successor to Farrakhan.

Read an April 2007 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center about the effects the booming Hispanic population is having on U.S. religious practices.

The Office of Research for Religion in Society and Culture at Brooklyn College publishes The National Survey of Leadership in Latino Parishes and Congregations. Contact Stevens-Arroyo.

The U.S. Census Bureau posts a page that links to surveys on the economic and social characteristics of Hispanics, as well as another page on the Hispanic population in the U.S. with links to a variety of surveys and documents.

Victor Muhammad is director of the Prison Reform Program of the Nation of Islam.

Michael Gomez is a history professor at New York University with a focus on the African diaspora. He wrote Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which deals in part with Noble Drew Ali, Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam.

The Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame also posts its research, which includes Hispanic housing in the United States, the future of Hispanic religious leadership, Hispanic access to health services, and Latino congregations’ civic/social involvement.

Hispanics make up 41 percent of Catholics in the U.S., according to data posted by Instituto Fe y Vida, a Catholic non-profit serving young Hispanics.

Read a report by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry about the First National Hispanic Youth and Youth Adult Ministry Encounter, held in June 2006.