Evidence of the decline is that woke the adjective has been fully “nouned”. In addition to wokeness, we now find wokeism and wokery. The ending -ness might be fairly neutral but -ism and -ery are ...

Put another way, each group has a shared set of concepts and ideas they use to communicate. In African American Vernacular English, words can take on layers of meaning. "Woke" is but one example.

a charged term like "woke" can mean different things to different people. "If you ask people what woke is, I think what they mean is they want to stand against people who are engaging in some ...

The controversy surrounding Disney’s latest rendition of the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs highlights how ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire innovator behind Tesla, SpaceX, and X, has a knack for stirring the pot. Whether it’s launching ...

“Our country will be woke no longer.” Trump’s rally against wokeness is just the latest way this four-letter word has been co-opted by Republicans to mean the worst of humanity and to criticize ...

Fonda’s clear-cut definition prompted raucous applause from the star-studded audience. Trump and his allies have often criticized Democrats, progressives and others opposed to his politics as “woke,” ...

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 ...