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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The only public comment that has come from Tykia Smith since her husband, Deante Smith, was shot dead on Sunday, was a single photo posted on Facebook Wednesday.
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Team Grieves for Football Player Killed by Pastor Who Allegedly Impregnated His Wife
The Michigan Lightning semi-pro football team on Monday publicly grieved for their captain, Deante Smith, who was shot dead inside a Detroit church after a confrontation with his estranged pastor.
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Deante Smith was shot dead inside the City of God Church in Detroit, Michigan, by his pastor who was allegedly having an affair with his wife.
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Christian Woman Survives After Screaming 'Jesus' as Muslim Terrorist Stabbed Her Repeatedly
An elderly Christian woman who was stabbed multiple times during a terrorist attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, that left two people dead and at least 16 others injured on Tuesday says she is convinced she's alive today because she called on Jesus as her attacker plunged his blade into her body.
20,000 ISIS Fighters Killed but Militants Haven't Lost Ground
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