Email Author Albert Samaha

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published November 17, 2011

  "Intentional Grounding"

• 2012 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published November 17, 2011

  "Intentional Grounding"

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2011 Stories by Albert Samaha

• P.R.E.A.C.H. keeps the Midwest chopper tradition alive

  published December 22, 2011

  The words rattle like Uzi bullets, crisp syllables snapping and tumbling out, fast and clean, zipping through two, three, even four bars. The... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Intentional Grounding: When the state stripped his Flyers of back-to-back conference titles last year, East St. Louis High football coach Darren Sunkett seemed done for. Not so fast.

  published November 17, 2011

  On this crisp Friday evening in mid-September, East St. Louis Senior High School has just lost its first Southwestern Conference football game... More >>

• James Clark and Norm White want their Neighborhood Alliance to save St. Louis' worst neighborhoods. Then they want it to save America.

  published September 15, 2011

  For decades, smart men with sensible plans have tried to empower inner-city communities, and they have failed. So it requires a good... More >>

• Thi'sl goes from murder suspect to chart topper

  published September 1, 2011

  It was 1999 and Travis Tyler had been in the jail cell for three days. Because you don't get bail when you're arrested for first-degree... More >>

• A-Game gets one step closer with his new mixtape

  published August 18, 2011

  Two hours in and A-Game's already recorded four songs. As long as he keeps this tempo for the next nine hours, he'll finish the mixtape by the... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Let the Dems keep hating: Jamilah Nasheed could pull off the political coup of the century

  published August 18, 2011

  Oh, shit. Mayor Francis G. Slay looks pissed. He came all the way up to this town hall meeting at Mount Airy Missionary Baptist Church in the... More >>

• City Hall Insult of the Week: You Tweet Like a Teenage Girl

  published July 21, 2011

  St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay vetoed last week the bill that would add speed bumps to O'Fallon Park — and the alderman representing the... More >>

• Del Taco Says Adios to St. Louis: But what about that flying saucer?

  published July 7, 2011

  St. Louis Alderwoman Marlene Davis wants you to know that Board Bill #118 has nothing to do with any potential demolition of the Del Taco... More >>