Richard Whitmire was a former editorial writer at USA Today and past board president of the National Education Writers Association, and a frequent opinion commentator on national education issues.

Baltimoreans may not have much, but we do have our narratives. We have our tales that if told should be credited to us and only us. This is why I am disappointed with the rhetoric coming from Wes ...

An all-American success story, Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar, honored college football player, decorated combat veteran, former White House Fellow and… ...

Moore came to national attention in 2010 for his first book, The Other Wes Moore, a hybrid memoir meditating on an eerie coincidence: two Black boys with the same name, born into similar ...

Part autobiography, part dramatic narrative, "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" (2011) is a book that defies genre, expectations and even — for the most part — cynicism. The common reading ...

“The Other Wes Moore” is the result of that letter and subsequent correspondence between the two men, each eager to meet his namesake and to try to understand how their lives – similar at ...

Struck by the similar name, Moore writes that he couldn’t forget about the other Wes Moore. He contacted him in prison, corresponded and visited. This book was born of that connection.