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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.

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?

A preaching 'genius' faces his toughest convert
John Blake, CNN
Fred Craddock was a young preacher trying to find his voice when he received a call from his mother one day.

The new threat: 'Racism without racists'
John Blake, CNN
In a classic study on race, psychologists staged an experiment with two photographs that produced a surprising result.

How 'Game of Thrones' is like America
John Blake, CNN
A fire-breathing dragon has never vaporized a senator giving a pompous speech on C-SPAN. No candidate has ever poisoned a rival at his wedding reception, and no "white walker" zombie has ever dragged a screaming climate change skeptic away.

When you're the only white person in the room
John Blake, CNN
Flip open Amanda Shaffer's high school yearbook, and you'll notice something that stands out even more than her classmates' earnest smiles and big hairdos.

How Jimi Hendrix's race became his 'invisible legacy'
John Blake, CNN
Two weeks after closing Woodstock with his reinvention of "The Star Spangled Banner," Jimi Hendrix decided to offer a free concert for a group he called "my people."

Of course presidents lie
John Blake, CNN
"I cannot tell a lie."

The post-racial revolution will be televised
John Blake, CNN
It's a classic "Star Trek" story people love to tell.

Ghost hunters haunted by new terror: competition
John Blake, CNN
Zak Bagans tiptoes into a darkened bedroom, hunting a predator.

Protesters rally in front of the US Supreme Court to urge the overturning of the court's Citizens United decision. The decision was the result of a two-century old court battle to award corporations rights normally conferred to people, an author says.

How corporations won their own civil rights movement

John Wayne Gacy, seen here in his arrest photo, was a notorious serial killer who cultivated a persona as a clown who would perform at charity events and children birthday parties.

He was seen as a hero. Then they discovered he was something else

Andy Stanley, an author and founder of North Point Ministries, says he never sets out to preach a great sermon. He instead tries to preach a sermon that moves people to take action.

These are the 12 most 'effective' preachers in the English language

See what put these 12 preachers on Baylor's list

Remembering the theologian who took on the hypocrisy of the white church

Beyoncé and Lamar show what it means to be 'unapologetically black'

Foot Soldiers statue in Kelly Ingram Park. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images)

The Fight for $15 takes on the 'Jim Crow economy'

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shakes his fist during a speech in Selma, Ala., Feb. 12, 1965. King was engaged in a battle with Sheriff Jim Clark over voting rights and voter registration in Selma. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

The question that haunts Martin Luther King's last day in Memphis

A woman, not a man, was the first person to preach an Easter sermon, according to the Bible. A painting shows a resurrected Jesus appearing first to Mary Magdalene.

How Easter became a #MeToo moment

The blurring of racial lines won't save America. Why 'racial fluidity' is a con

Where Billy Graham 'missed the mark'

Students of Coral Glades High School, a high school less than four miles from Douglas, hold signs as the participate in a school walk for gun law change at Coral Glades High School in Coral Springs Florida on February 21, 2018. A former student, Nikolas Cruz, opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School leaving 17 people dead and 15 injured on February 14. / AFP PHOTO / RHONA WISE (Photo credit should read RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images)

Four reasons the NRA should fear the Parkland student survivors

MEMPHIS, TN - APRIL 04: The Rev. William J. Barber II (R) stands outside the National Civil Rights Museum following a march from City Hall to the museum by Fight for $15 supporters on April 4, 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee. About 1,000 people marched through downtown Memphis from City Hall to the National Civil Rights museum on the 49th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. (Photo by Mike Brown/Getty Images)

A pastor helps revive MLK's most radical campaign

We know that MLK fought against racism but he had a lot to say about other contemporary issues not normally associated with civil rights, historians and activists say.

Three ways MLK speaks to our time

President Donald Trump examines a fire truck from Wisconsin-based manufacturer Pierce on the South Lawn during a "Made in America" product showcase event at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 17, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Olivier Douliery (Photo credit should read OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP/Getty Images)

How Trump became 'the white affirmative action president'

Though his squad had been ordered not to attempt any rescues of American pilots who had been shot down, Tom Hudner ignored that command and crash-landed into a mountain clearing to save his friend, Jesse Leroy Brown.

A war hero who was a stranger in his own land

A "Stop the Sag!" billboard ion the side of a building in New York City. The sag has finally stopped but not due to any public campaign.

The fall of the sagging pants era is upon us

White families, fleeing people of color, helped create suburban America. It's called White flight.

'White supremacists by default': How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 13: People march in the National March Against Police Violence, which was organized by National Action Network, through the streets of Manhattan on December 13, 2014 in New York City. The march coincided with a march in Washington D.C. and comes on the heels of two grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Get ready for a more militant and 'woke' NAACP

When exorcists need help, they call him

Rob Bell, the former megachurch pastor who was condemned for questing the existence of hell, takes his controversial message to Atlanta and other Bible Belt cities.

Outlaw pastor Rob Bell shakes up the Bible Belt

Why America needs more 'O.J. Moments'

7th June 1960: The Board of Directors of Fisons Ltd, manufacturers of fertilizers, attend a meeting in the company's boardroom. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

What's wrong with too many white men in one place?

An American soldier helps a comrade in France in September 1918. The war's brutality shocked army leaders and changed America in profound ways.

From Syria to Black Lives Matter: 3 ways WWI still shapes America

About

John Blake has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, and The American Academy of Religion. He is the author of "Children of the Movement."