Alpena Pro-Equality

02/03/2025

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month! 🧡 Did you know 1 in 3 teens experience abuse in romantic relationships? This month, we're raising awareness and promoting healthy relationships. Let's work together to support teens and stop dating violence.

Learn more and get involved! Together, we can create a world free from relationship abuse. 💪

07/16/2024

02/08/2024

Unknown by many today, Dorothy Height is recognized as one of the most influential women in the modern civil rights movement.

'During the 1930s she was an activist against lynching and for reforms to the criminal justice system.

She was not only a co-organizer of the 1963 March on Washington but during the 1960s and 1970s, she served on a number of committees, including the President's Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped, and the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.’

https://www.nps.gov/people/dorothy-i-height.htm #:~:text=Height%20began%20her%20efforts%20as,to%20the%20criminal%20justice%20system.

02/04/2024

"Born into slavery, William Dorsey Swann became the first American to lead a q***r resistance group, first to self-identify as a “queen of drag,” and first to use the U.S. legal system to defend the q***r community. He battled police in a cream satin gown when they raided a drag ball almost a century before the Stonewall uprising."

Born into slavery, William Dorsey Swann became the first American to lead a q***r resistance group, first to self-identify as a “queen of drag,” and first to use the U.S. legal system to defend the q***r community. He battled police who raided a drag ball in 1888, almost a century before the Sto...

02/04/2024

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913. She was known as the 'Mother of the Civil Rights Movement', & was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr.’s Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Let's continue to celebrate her legacy of bravery and advocacy for racial equality.

02/25/2023

02/25/2023