Originally, woke came from Black American vernacular and meant exactly what it sounds like: being awake. As in, aware. Paying ...

Chances are, you've at least heard someone use the term "woke" as an adjective, used to tell someone to “stay woke.” But you still may not understand the true meaning of the word. Now, more than ever, ...

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. Merriam-Webster added ...

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 ...

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Republican South Carolina senator Tim Scott has hit out at criticism that his party is using him as a prop because he is Black by suggesting such remarks are an example of "woke supremacy." Scott, the ...

National Review columnist Caroline Downey warned on CNN, Thursday, that the word “woke” is “losing its meaning” due to conservatives “abusing the term” to refer to anything they don’t like. Reacting ...