More Wes MooresThe Chattanooga area is home to two other well known Wes Moores — University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball coach Wes Moore and former basketball coach at Signal Mountain Middle/High School Wes Moore.
Wes Moore’s life could have gone much differently.
He knows he didn’t have to end up as a Rhodes Scholar, a decorated veteran and an assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. He knows just how blessed he is and how easily it all could have gone terribly wrong.
He knows because another black man with the same name from the same Baltimore neighborhood showed him.
Growing up just blocks away, the other Wes Moore fell into the temptation of drug dealing. As a young man, he fathered four children in four years with two different women.