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 ...

“Woke,” a term singer Erykah Badu reinvigorated in the late aughts on the track “Master Teacher,” has since taken on “a life of its own,” and she believes it has become a put-down for Black people.

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.

“Woke,” a slang term popularized by social-justice activists on the left, is making its way into the next update of Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the BBC reported Tuesday. The OED is adding a ...

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 ...

Former Ohio lawmaker Nina Turner challenged Twitter CEO Elon Musk to define the word "woke," but instead got several amusing responses from social media users who took the opportunity to slam the ...

Gary Houchens claims “It’s not hard to define ‘woke’” and proceeds to give what might be the sloppiest definition I have ever read in a newspaper. I’m a philosopher by training, so I know how to spot ...

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 ...

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 ...