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

Adam Meyer is the associate director and professor of the Jewish studies program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Much of his research focuses on the relations between blacks and Jews. He is the author of  Black-Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography .

Andre Key is an assistant professor of history at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. He is an expert in the historical development of Black Hebrew religion and Hebrew Israelite ethno-religious identity.