If you've attended a social-justice protest or watched an episode of "Dear White People," you've likely heard the word "woke." But the term wasn't being used to refer to sleep. It was being used to ...
As I was preparing to go onstage for an event recently, the moderator warned my co-panelist and me that the very first prompt would be “Please define the word woke for the audience.” We all sighed and ...
R&B singer-songwriter Erykah Badu says the term woke "doesn't belong to us anymore" after it has been misappropriated by conservatives. (Richard Shotwell / Invision / Associated Press) "Woke," a term ...
Are you “woke”? I don’t know whether I am or not. Under one definition, I’m pretty sure I am and I’m glad of it, but under the other definition being glad about it may make me the bad kind of woke.
Former Ohio lawmaker Nina Turner challenged Twitter CEO Elon Musk to define the word "woke," but instead got several amusing responses from social media users who took the opportunity to slam the ...
Republicans ramped up their focus on “woke waste” in the federal budget on Thursday, prompting fierce blowback and accusations of bigotry from Democrats. Lawmakers clashed over what the word “woke” ...
Recently, two writers who were published in LNP | LancasterOnline made persuasive arguments in support of “woke.” There was the March 24 letter “Some thoughts on use of ‘woke’ ” and the March 28 ...
The first two weeks of 2025 have been ROUGH — we've already experienced bombings, Donald Trump not going to jail, and Los Angeles being on fire — but watching a MAGA supporter look foolish when trying ...