Leonardo Blair
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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Pete Buttigieg claims faith and gay rights struggle will help him connect with black voters
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, argued that his struggle for gay rights helps him connect with black voters. His comments were made during the fifth primary debate of the 2020 presidential election cycle Wednesday after Sen. Kamala Harris of California issued a grave warning to the Democratic Party about taking the voters for granted.
After Ben Carson, Maxine Waters spar, Democratic presidential candidates address homelessness crisis
Two days after a war of words over America’s homelessness crisis erupted between Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Democratic presidential candidates sought to address the issue of affordable housing during the fifth Democratic presidential debate Wednesday.
Pastor who prayed for Obama before election asks God to reveal plan for Kamala Harris
A South Carolina pastor asked God to manifest his plan for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg accused of lying about black support in South Carolina
After a series of recent reports showing gay Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg struggling to woo conservative black voters nationally, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor’s campaign is now under fire for lying about the level of black support he has in the early voting state of South Carolina.
Maxine Waters calls Ben Carson a ‘duck out of water’ in escalating war of words over homelessness
Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters called Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson a “duck out of water” and a “complete failure at HUD” Tuesday after he dismissed her as a hypocrite lacking “basic manners” in an escalating war of words over America’s homelessness crisis.
Leftists spurn Obama for warning Dems average American doesn’t want to ‘tear down system’
Former President Barack Obama continued facing backlash from leftists in the Democratic Party days after warning a room of wealthy liberal donors Friday that the average American voter doesn’t want to “completely tear down the system” to make it work for them.
Ben Carson calls Maxine Waters a hypocrite lacking ‘basic manners’ in testy exchange on homelessness
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson recently called veteran Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters a hypocrite lacking “basic manners” in a testy exchange about America’s homelessness crisis.
Kanye West’s Sunday Service at Lakewood draws high praise and more than a million witnesses
In less than 24 hours rapper Kanye West’s Jesus Is King “Sunday Service” concert at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, has been viewed more than a million times on just Facebook alone as the event continues to draw high praise.
Kanye West plans to evangelize America’s youth with music: ‘No weapon formed against me shall prosper’
Popular rapper and music producer Kanye West declared himself a formidable servant of Jesus Sunday as he called America back to God, teased big plans to evangelize the youth through new music and warned agents of the devil that “no weapon formed against me shall prosper.”
Western individualism, independence, prosocialism traced back to Church’s ban on incest: study
The tendency for people in societies classified as western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic — WEIRD — to be more individualistic, independent, impersonally prosocial and less conforming has been traced to a ban by the medieval Western Church on incest, according to a recent study.