Two Men and Two Paths

Nicholas Kristof
The New York Times

When Wes Moore won a Rhodes scholarship in 2000, The Baltimore Sun published an article about his triumph. He was the first student at Johns Hopkins to win a Rhodes in 13 years, and the first black student there ever to win the award.

At about the same time, The Sun published articles about another young African-American man, also named Wes Moore. This one was facing charges of first-degree murder...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13kristof.html