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Americans don't understand what the word "woke" means, but my book "The Woketopus" lays out a clear definition and shows why it's dangerous.
Disney "woke" accusations from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis challenge a 100-year narrative that defines being woke as being aware of racial injustice.
One word has become unavoidable on the campaign trail — woke. But what does it really mean and where does it come from? The word has a long and serious history in Black culture.
Aside from being the past participle of wake, for decades, it meant conscious and aware – but the slang word has come to represent an embrace of progressive activism, as well.
Rather, it is about the history that occurred along the routes, history that rebuts the misdirected and sometimes malicious “anti-woke” onslaught we see here in Florida.
While pundits and politicians often use the word “woke” with a negative connotation, a majority of Americans think of it as a positive word, a new survey finds.
The White House put a pause on funding federal programs to assess for "woke gender ideology" and DEI. Here's what it means.