Mr. Wes Morrison was born September 11th, 1947, at Freedmen’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.. As a baby, he lived with his mother, Mary Palmer Cobb Morrison on Massachusetts Avenue, before being sent to Durham, North Carolina, where he was raised by his grandmother, Mary Etta Cobb, and an aunt, Annie Lee Cobb. In Durham, he lived in the Brookstown neighborhood, a twenty-minute walk to his school, Lyon Park Elementary School, and nearby Duke University. Mr. Morrison grew up surrounded by a strong matriarchy, including his Aunt Lee, an elementary school teacher and the first Black woman to earn a master’s degree in education from New York University. Mr. Morrison credits his aunt’s encouragement to read the dictionary when bored for his ability to read before kindergarten and his continued love of language. Although an only child, he felt fortunate to have supportive family members who were successful professionals, including two aunts who taught in the public school system, an uncle who was the Executive Director for the Commission of Racial Justice, and an uncle who was a founder of the National Alliance of Postal Employees. In 1959, Mr. Morrison was sent back to D.C. to live with his mother at the age of twelve when his Aunt Lee was diagnosed with cancer. He attended Langley Junior High School which he remembers as “hellish,” in large part due to harassment by peers about both his light color skin, his sexuality (though it was not until later that he publicly identified as gay), and his accomplishments as an honor student. His mother knew about a military school he could attend, but she was unsure whether he would like a boarding school. Contrary to her hesitation, Mr. Morrison was thrilled to learn about the boarding school and enthusiastically responded, 'Where are the applications, I will sign them right now”. He attended high school at St. Emma Military Academy, a boarding school for Black male students near Powhatan, Virginia. He excelled academically at St. Emma’s, earning Private First Class (PFC) his freshman year, and he graduated with the high achievement of First Lieutenant. After his high school graduation, Mr. Morrison went on to study business administration at Strayer Community College from 1968 – 1971. Mr. Morrison worked an eclectic assortment of jobs starting at a young age, and along with the help of his mother, financed his college education by working at a clothing store. He had studied tailoring in military school as an industrial art, and his job fed his interest in fashion. After college graduation, Mr. Morrison “treated himself” to a trip to Paris, France, to follow his passion for fashion. He participated in a six-week fine arts tour of Europe where he studied in Amsterdam, London, Rome, and Paris, including two weeks at the Sorbonne. After the organized trip, he was able to return to Paris where he spent three months pitching his designs at Parisian fashion houses. Housing availability and pressures from home pulled him back to D.C. where he settled into a series of jobs in television and radio. A six-week temporary position at NBC WRC led to his thirty-two-year career at the station where he ultimately became Assistant Producer. Mr. Morrison is now an advocate for senior citizens, with special emphasis on LGBTQ seniors. He currently works with a large number of organizations including Iona Senior Services Citizens Advisory Group, the Department of Aging and Community Living LGBTQ Advisory Board, AARP, and the Capitol Hill Village.