Judith Weisenfeld, PhD, is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton University. She is the author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (2016) and Hollywood Be Thy Name: African-American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 (2007).

Melanee C. Harvey, PhD, is assistant professor of Art History, Howard University, She is the author of, most recently, "Benny Andrews: Critically Constructing the American Figure, in Unforgettable: American Artists Reconsidered, (2022) and "Afro-American Images: 1971 as Evidence: Charting Mid-Century African American Artists Networks" in Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks, Margaret Winslow, ed. (2021).

Dr. Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Rice University. Previous publications include Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together, (2021), Humanism: Essays in Race, Religion, and Cultural Production, (2015), and Introducing African American Religion, (2013).

Teddy Reeves, Ph.D., is curator of Religion, National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Eric Lewis Williams, Ph.D., is curator of Religion, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. HE is the co-editor of T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology, (2019).