Wesley Brown

Publisher & longtime news reporter. Loves puppies, golf & running. 3-time winner of Cowtown Marathon & other footraces.

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

@ChEsplin Almost the call of the century!

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

@QuincyHall400 Bless you, my brotha! This 400 be required study for everyone that I coach.

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

@KandidlyKamesha Beautiful queen!

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Excited to be selected for this honor!

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

@stacyfmitchell @NaomiStarkman
Not true. Read our story.

ILSR was a @CivilEats source, but most of our reporting came from over a dozen interviews & detailed research of Dollar Tree-General finances that paint another side of this issue.

Also, plagiarism. That's something!

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

@NaomiStarkman @CivilEats @nytimes @BrownOnBusiness Love @CivilEats but in this case, I think the similarity might be owing to the fact that both pieces share, as an underlying source, the research and tracking that ILSR has been doing for several years: https://t.co/CJgccY6egq

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

@SAlbarado shares important story on the assault on diversity, equity and inclusion: https://t.co/MHX35viRRv via @ArkAdvocate

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Must-read story by @HunterCField. Arkansas Senate panel recommends ending state affirmative action https://t.co/sjSbCO8ahI via @ArkAdvocate

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

So proud of my niece, Judge Doris Pryor, a Hope native & UCA grad. The Senate confirmed her today to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit by a vote of 60-31. Pres Biden nominated her as the 1st woman of color in Indiana to the 7th Circuit in May. https://t.co/wfwv2PcWse

[Black Consumer News of Arkansas @BlackArkansas]

LRNightMarket brought droves of revelers to the city’s @RiverMarket & @CALibrarySystem’s Liberty Square this weekend. Most electric, diverse event in @CityLittleRock and local media is a no-show. #LRNightMarket #RemixIdeas. See @BlackArkansas story here: https://t.co/plWIEtJTFb

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

That @SteveSchmidtSES thread is blowing my mind!

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Check out my recent story on Envirotech $80 million project in Osceola. The company's financial statements leave a lot of questions about how an unregulated over-the-counter startup is going to build, finance and run a state-of-the-art electric vehicle manufacturing facility.

[Daily Record @Dailyrecord_AR]

Envirotech's $80 million, 800-job EV project in Osceola leaves lots of questions about finances, executive team, manufacturing experience, and operations as an unregulated over-the-counter stock. See Daily Record story here: https://t.co/NFs8b9UqSc

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

A 95-year old Black World War II vet, who once had to pay a poll tax to vote, was twice denied an absentee ballot under Texas new "voter ID" laws. He now must reregister after never missing a vote in 74 years. This should never happen in America. Never! https://t.co/4fwa7vkbp0

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Been listening to Holiday Soul on Sirius. Came up w/my top 5 Christmas list here:

1. Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
2. Christmas just ain't Christmas - Ojay's
3. This Christmas - Donny Hathaway
4. FairyTale of NY - The Pogues
5. Rudolph - Burl Ives or Temptations

What's yours?

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Russian Bot!

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Hopefully, the new executive director at @DonateLifeAR will turn around the failing culture at ARORA. Too many Black lives at stake. https://t.co/MXWWFpb2bM

[Team Katie @TeamKatiePorter]

We've long known that organ procurement organizations fail to recover thousands of donations a year, but new data reveals just how fatal this negligence can be for patients of color. I won't stop fighting to hold OPOs accountable.

https://t.co/YUe376OXMJ

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Congrats! Nice weather too.

[Ginny Monk @GinnyMonk]

@ademillo Congrats!!

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

This is a crime. Arkansas' ARORA has the highest rate of Black patients dying on the state's organ donor waiting list. Yet @DonateLifeAR execs continue to publicly tout that ARORA saves lives while doing nothing about these racial inequities. Very sad. https://t.co/WSWjClmBeT

[Nora Eckert @NoraEckert]

"I’m trying desperately to avoid being a dying patient.”

Black patients are three times as likely as white patients to have kidney failure, yet these patients are less likely to be identified as transplant recipients.

Organ failure Pt. 3. Out today. https://t.co/0TPk5lRX93

[Nora Eckert @NoraEckert]

"I’m trying desperately to avoid being a dying patient.”

Black patients are three times as likely as white patients to have kidney failure, yet these patients are less likely to be identified as transplant recipients.

Organ failure Pt. 3. Out today. https://t.co/0TPk5lRX93

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Her report folos our @DailyRecord_AR 2-part series https://t.co/cHPNHs0dqc as Arkansas' ARORA faces de-certification as worst performing OPO. What's disturbing is @Donatelifear & failing OPOs spend million$$ in marketing themselves as lifesavers while lobbying against reforms.

[Wesley Brown @BrownOnBusiness]

Great read by @Nora_Eckert at @PB_News on the nation's 57 OPO monopolies. Looking forward to rest of her 3-part series, including upcoming report on racial inequities in the OPO system that means 1 of 4 Black organ donation candidates die while waiting for life-saving organ.

[Nora Eckert @NoraEckert]

NEW: LifeSource is the most powerful part of Minnesota's organ transplant system. It has a federally-sanctioned monopoly over transplants in MN, ND & SD.

@PB_News uncovered that it is underperforming and under federal investigation. Pt. 1 of our series👇
https://t.co/dRxipX85OC