Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Virginia's Marriage Amendment; Says Constitutional Rights of Gays Trump State Marriage Laws
Virginia's amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman was struck down Monday after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond ruled 2-1 that gay couples have a constitutional right to marry that trumps state marriage laws.
You Won't Believe What This Restaurant Owner Did for His Employees After a Fire Burnt His Business to the Ground
When a fire razed Bruce Kroll's Culver's Restaurant in Platteville, Wisconsin, last November his 40 employees weren't sure if they still had jobs. When Kroll told them what he would do for them, however, they were stunned.
Ohio Sheriff Gets Death Threat After Sending Bill to Mexican President for All the Illegals in His Jail
Stretched by the crush of illegal immigrants flooding his jails from the border, Sheriff Richard K. Jones of Butler County, Ohio, said his life was threatened after he sent a bill to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto seeking compensation for hosting his law-breaking countrymen.
'Stupid': Wanted Man Arrested After Taunting Police on Facebook Post Saying 'Y'all Will Never Catch Me'
A wanted man who bragged on the Facebook page of Anne Arundel County Police in Maryland that "Y'all will never catch me" after they posted his photo there Wednesday became the laughingstock of the country Thursday when authorities arrested him.
Gay Man Arrested After Baby Girl He Wanted to Adopt With Partner Dies in Hot Car; Another Child Was Left Inside But Escaped
A gay Wichita, Kansas man who was trying to adopt a 10-month-old girl with his partner was arrested on suspicion of aggravated child endangerment Thursday when the infant died after he forgot that he had left her and another child inside his car in scorching 90-degree weather.
Bible College Offers Doctorate for Donation of $85; But You Better Hurry, the Offer Is Only Good Until the End of August
If you've always wanted the honor of being called a doctor officially, the Abundant Life Bible College and Theological Seminary in Stuart, Florida is promising to give you just that for a small donation of $85. You better hurry though, this fire sale only lasts until the end of August.
Paul Walker's Death Was 'Heartbreaking' Says Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson; 'Audience Will Be Happy, Emotionally Moved by Fast 7'
In a Reddit AMA Wednesday to promote his latest movie "Hercules," which opens in theaters Friday, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson revealed that losing actor Paul Walker for "Fast and Furious 7" was "heartbreaking," but fans will be happy and emotionally moved by the movie when it's released next April.
Doctors Extract Surprising 232 Teeth From Mouth of Teen Boy; Will Submit Case to Guinness World Record
Doctors who extracted a shocking 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in India Monday were so overwhelmed by the haul that they have decided to submit the case to the Guinness World Record to check if they may have stumbled on a record for most number of teeth extracted from one person's mouth.
ISIS Blows Up Muslim Shrine With Biblical Prophet Jonah's Tomb 'to Dust' Because it Had Become a Place of Apostasy
A revered Muslim shrine in Mosul, Iraq, said to be the burial place of the biblical prophet Jonah known as Yunus in the Koran, was reportedly blown "to dust" by members of the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Thursday.
'Mandatory Fun' Becomes First #1 Album for Song Parodist 'Weird Al' Yankovic on Billboard 200 Chart in 30 Year Career
Popular song parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic could not believe it. After 30 years in a career spent making parody versions of popular music, he earned his first No. 1 album spot on the Billboard 200 chart with his latest album "Mandatory Fun".
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