Read a March 9, 2013 article about the prevalence of religious figures on Twitter.

This Far by Faith is a 2003 six-hour PBS television series that traced the role of religion in the lives of African-Americans. Its website includes background, experts and other resources.

The University of North Carolina’s digital archive, “Documenting the American South,” includes a history on the southern black community and documentation of the past.

Read a brief history and review of scholarly surveys on community outreach by black churches, by John J. DiIulio Jr. at the Manhattan Institute Web site.

Read the three-part essay about African Americans and religion in the nineteenth century written by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, associate professor of religious studies and American studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

How can I interview and write about religions I don’t believe in? By Jeffery Sheler U.S. News & World Report* This, I think, raises a basic question of professional ethics every reporter faces regardless of beat. As most of us learned in J-school, standard journalism ethics require that, in reporting and writing the news (as […]

The Hartford Seminary’s Encyclopedia of Religion and Society posts an article on “African American Religious Experience,” edited by William H. Swatos Jr.

Amherst College’s ambitious project, “African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project,” was begun in 1987. It compiled a comprehensive history of African-American religion in a three-volume work published by the University of Chicago Press.

Read an essay at the Hartford Seminary’s Faith Communities Today area about African American denominations from the past to the present.