To be "woke" politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality, Merriam-Webster Dictionary states. A historical ...

However, the term has also garnered negative connotations. Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that "woke" can imply political ...

The term woke means being “aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality,” according to the Cambridge dictionary. The Oxford English dictionary describes ‘woke’ as ...