A term that has become increasingly mainstream within the past few years, including as captions on social media posts, TikTok ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The term “woke” originated in Black culture as awareness about racism and injustice, with roots traced to Marcus ...

Marty O’Donnell, the video game composer behind the "Halo" and "Destiny" series, compared the battles against "woke" ideology in both video games and politics as he discussed running for Congress ...

A Wisconsin mother and conservative activist has won a free speech case after being sued for defamation over social media posts criticizing her school district’s "woke" priorities. Scarlett Johnson, a ...

The expression “stay woke” started out as an affirmation for African Americans. In the past decade it has been used by some Republicans — and some Democrats — as a pejorative for people thought to be ...

Have you seen Ken Burns’s series “The American Revolution” on PBS? Even if you haven’t, you might have seen the commentary that accompanied it: a scorching string of articles accusing Burns of ...

Fans are bashing “Stranger Things” online, calling the Season 5, Volume 2, episodes a “woke cringe” disappointment. The ...

A “woke” crusader known for sending hundreds of offensive emails and threats was given a mere slap on the wrist and complimented as “highly intelligent” by a civil judge — despite storming into court ...

Democrats won governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the race to become the next mayor of New York. Democrats also swept judicial races in Pennsylvania, ...

I am not a member of the Roman Catholic Church, but I am very impressed with the new pope, Leo XIV. He is intelligent, thoughtful, articulate and gives high priority to social, racial and economic ...

President Trump opined a few months ago that the U.S. was “woke no longer”. [1] While I admire his optimism, woke is not dead, dying, hospitalized, or even hiding. It is still functioning openly, ...

It started as most digital transgressions do: a harmless joke meant to poke fun at an overarching societal behavior. When TikTok creator Michelle.ok made her viral “Friend that’s too woke” clip, there ...