How Black History Month gives pride to Quincy Morris
Quincy Morris
During Black History Month, we will spotlight the voices of Black creatives. From content creators to co-founders, we’ve asked questions to those that inspire us to tell us what’s on their mind. The interview questions remain the same throughout, but the answers provide a unique view of every single person.
Quincy Morris is the founder and president of Qubed Entertainment, which produces web, TV, and film projects. He is the executive producer on all projects involved with Qubed and is the creator and writer of an award winning web tv show called ‘In Between Men.’
What does Black History Month mean to you?
This Black History Month has a renewed meaning for me. It's not about just celebrating our contributions to the world in the past, but taking the "now" in the palm of our hands and shaping the future that will one day become the history for those who come after us. In grade school, it brought so much joy every February to see books and posters around the classroom highlighting the inventions and barriers broken by people who looked like me. It gave me so much pride to see that so much of American life, from inventions we touched everyday or that made our lives better to significant accomplishments, were given to our country and the world by my people. For every 'Hidden Figures', there's a Henrietta Lacks. For every Tuskegee Airmen, there's a Tuskegee Experiment. That's why Black History Month reminds me, especially as a writer, filmmaker, and producer, of how important it is that we have control of our own narrative. That we are the custodians of our story.
How does your storytelling speak to the Black experience?
That's why moving forward, particularly after the year of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's deaths and subsequent explosion of BLM protests, I will be creating content around the seemingly radical idea of preserving Black bodies and Black minds. Because those bodies and minds have value.
What kind of stories do you feel still need to be highlighted for the Black queer community.
This is something I am exceedingly, indeed at times even angrily, passionate about. And that is sexual racism disguised as sexual preference by white gay men towards Black gay men and men of color. It is so pervasive, so epidemic within the gay community writ-large, yet so hushed and not allowed to be openly discussed. How gay Black men are both objectified and dehumanized by their white counterparts. LGBTQ members have all been too busy fighting against being victims of discrimination as a community from mainstream culture, that we haven't made room for conversation about how we make victims of each other within the community. And these stories need to be told too, in depth.
In celebration of Black History Month, Revry has curated a powerful collection of stories told by Black artists featuring films, TV series, music, and more. See the playlist on Revry.
