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  2. What does 'woke' mean now? Erykah Badu, who popularized ... - AOL

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    The OED traced the origin of woke's newer definition to a 1962 New York Times article by Black author William Melvin Kelley describing how white beatniks were appropriating Black slang at the time.

  3. Woke - Wikipedia

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    The latter meaning was used in singer Childish Gambino's 2016 song "Redbone". [15] In the 21st century's first decade, the use of woke encompassed the earlier meaning with an added sense of being "alert to social and/or racial discrimination and injustice". [7]

  4. What does 'woke' mean in politics? How the term is used now ...

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    The term "woke" used to have a different meaning. It was first used by Pan-African activist Marcus Garvey as early as 1923 . "Woke" was meant to acknowledge the struggles of African Americans and ...

  5. A brief history of 'wokeness' - AOL

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    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the slang term’s primary meaning as being “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social ...

  6. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...

  7. Conscious Community - Wikipedia

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    Among some individuals in the Conscious Community, there is a common belief that phenomena of the world do not operate in the way humans believe them to; consequently, Afrofuturism is used to philosophize about the deeper meaning of reality and life, to decrypt physical and metaphysical events, and, along with ideas from physics (e.g., quantum ...

  8. What does it mean to be ‘woke?’ Majority in the US have ...

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    While there was some agreement on the definition of “woke,” Americans are more sharply divided over whether the word is a compliment or an insult, pollsters said. Forty percent said it is an ...

  9. Woke (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Woke is an adjective meaning 'aware of issues concerning social and racial justice'. Woke or WOKE may also refer to: Arts and entertainment