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 ...
This is one of those times that I want to stand on a table and scream that we’re all focused on the wrong thing. There’s a debate raging over the origin and definition of the term “woke” – as if we ...
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.
Is Jesus woke or anti-woke? In order to answer this question, one would have to know the definition and origin of the word “woke.” The word woke is not new it has been rooted in Black History since ...
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 ...
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” ...