New York Times best-selling author, Wes Moore, will speak at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Observance at 10 a.m. Jan. 20 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Moore’s book, “The Other Wes Moore,” tells the story of two men with the same name, from the same neighborhood one a decorated combat veteran, and Rhodes Scholar, the other a felon in prison for murder.
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