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  • John Blake
    CNN Enterprise writer/producer

    John Blake is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. He writes about race, religion, politics and other assorted topics.

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  • Sins of the father; redemption of the son

    John Blake, CNN
    Sex, a family secret and the collapse of one of America's biggest megachurches. Pastor D.E. Paulk breaks his silence to tell CNN's John Blake the inside story behind the public humiliation that became his salvation.
  • Image #: 1967854    March 7, 1965, Selma: Using batons and tear gas, Alabama state troopers break up the march from Selma to Montgomery at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The clash became known as ìBloody Sunday.î      Birmingham News/Landov

    Is MLK's greatest victory being undone?

    John Blake, CNN
    The forces that mobilized against marchers in Selma 50 years ago launched a movement of their own that relied on an audacious strategy: They borrowed protesters' tactics to blow a hole through the civil rights movement's "crown jewel."
  • Why Bigfoot is getting nervous

    John Blake, CNN
    Monster stories have been around for millennia, and just about every state has its own creature. Now monster hunters are hot on the trail, armed with cameras, drones and night-vision goggles. Can they catch one?