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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More than 100 prominent black clergy have signed a petition calling for a boycott of the Word Network, which is billed as “the largest, African-American religious network in the WORLD!,” after Kevin Adell, the network’s white owner and CEO, was accused of racial insensitivity.
69 people rescued from chains, cages and torture at Christian ministry in Trinidad, police say
Some 69 people were rescued Wednesday from a life of chains, cages and torture at a Christian ministry in the twin island nation of Trinidad & Tobago in a case local police describe as “slavery” in the largest human trafficking ring in the country.
Dallas police say Joshua Brown was killed in drug deal gone bad but some question narrative
Joshua Brown, a key witness who testified against former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger in the 2018 murder of Botham Jean, was killed in a drug deal gone bad, police said. But some are publicly questioning that narrative.
US missionary deported after accusing Rwandan government of ‘heathen practices’
The Rev. Gregg Schoof, an outspoken American missionary who was arrested Monday in Rwanda where he ran a conservative evangelical church and radio station has been deported after accusing the government of taking a “stand against God with its heathen practices.”
Christian judge in Botham Jean case doesn’t regret hugging Amber Guyger as accusations of partiality grow
Dallas County District Court Judge Tammy Kemp is defending her decision to hug former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger and give her a Bible after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of Botham Jean last Wednesday as atheist groups and many in the black community expressed outrage over it.
NAACP calls for investigation of fatal shooting of Joshua Brown, key witness in Amber Guyger trial
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., has called for an independent investigation of the fatal shooting of Joshua Brown, who testified against former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger.
Jimmy Carter gets black eye, stitches after bumping head while getting dressed for church
Former President Jimmy Carter bumped his head in a fall as he got dressed for church on Sunday, which required him to get 14 stitches.
Trump: ‘biggest pastors’ say his fight with media, Democrats fueling greatest revival in history
President Donald Trump says the “biggest pastors” in America have been telling him that his ongoing fight with the media and Democrats has been fueling the greatest revival in American history.
15-y-o boy killed protecting sister in home invasion hailed as hero; thousands donate for funeral
Khyler Edman, a 15-year-old Florida boy who police say fought to the death to protect his 5-year-old sister during a home invasion, is now being hailed a hero by family while hundreds continued to donate thousands of dollars to help with the cost of his burial.
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