Leonardo Blair

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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    Chelsea Clinton May Follow Parents Into Politics

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  • Study: Transgender Women Nearly 50 Times More Likely to Have HIV

    Study: Transgender Women Nearly 50 Times More Likely to Have HIV

    A new study spanning 15 countries, including the United States, has highlighted that transgender women are nearly 50 times more likely than the general population to be at risk of an HIV infection while another has cited a dearth of HIV-surveillance data on women with surgically created vaginas.

  • NRB President's Resignation Was Abrupt for Some Members

    NRB President's Resignation Was Abrupt for Some Members

    Two weeks after the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) President & CEO Dr. Frank Wright announced his resignation from the organization, effective Oct. 4, some members remain surprised by the abrupt nature of his decision.

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    Viral Kid President Robby Novak Talks Diplomacy With President Obama

    Perhaps the first president in America's history to talk diplomatic relations between adults and children with a child representative, President Barack Obama did just that this week when he hosted Internet sensation Kid President Robby Novak at the White House this week.

  • Controversial Televangelist Peter Popoff Hawks 'Miracle Water'

    Controversial Televangelist Peter Popoff Hawks 'Miracle Water'

    Peter Popoff, the controversial televangelist who amassed millions from a "prophetic anointing" that was later revealed to have come, at least in part, from information fed to him over a radio by his wife, Elizabeth, is now hawking baggies of "miracle spring water" that promises to rid its drinkers from debt.

  • Doctor Who 'Cured' Baby of HIV: 'Faith Affects Everything I Do'

    Doctor Who 'Cured' Baby of HIV: 'Faith Affects Everything I Do'

    If you ever wondered how much of an impact the Christian faith of Dr. Hannah Gay, the University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatrician whose treatment "functionally cured" a baby girl born with an HIV infection, has had on her work, you don't have to anymore. Her faith is "everything," she says.

  • Tubby 50-Year-Old Soccer Ace Is Newest Internet Star

    Andrew Cassidy, a tubby 50-year-old Welshman recently dubbed the "Welsh Maradona," has become the latest Internet sensation for his dazzling display of freestyle soccer skills in a parking lot that was captured in a video posted on YouTube a week ago.

  • Republican Lawmakers in North Carolina Push to Establish State Religion

    In a bid to nullify any federal ban on Christian prayer by public bodies in North Carolina, Republican legislators in that state filed a bill last month that would not only do that but also allow them to declare an official religion in the state too.

  • Obama Gives Brick Show on White House Ball Court at Easter Egg Roll

    Obama Gives Brick Show on White House Ball Court at Easter Egg Roll

    Call it an epic fail or a brickfest, but President Barack Obama could perhaps have built himself a little house with the number of bricks he threw down on the White House basketball court during the Easter Egg Roll festivities on Monday.

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