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"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.
While pundits and politicians often use the word “woke” with a negative connotation, a majority of Americans think of it as a positive word, a new survey finds.
The word "woke" is tossed around a lot in political and social debates all around the country. It's ramping up as Election Day draws near. The term carries different meanings and strong emotional ...
Former US Congresswoman Marcia Fudge holding a T-shirt reading "Stay Woke: Vote" in 2018. Woke, the African-American English synonym for the General American English word awake, has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans, often in the construction stay woke.
Go woke, go broke, or alternatively get woke, go broke, is an American political catchphrase used by right-wing groups to criticize and boycott businesses publicly supporting progressive policies, including empowering women, LGBT people and critical race theory ("going woke"), claiming that stock value and business performance will inevitably suffer ("going broke") as a result of adopting ...
[1] [2] The phrase "stay woke" refers to a continuing awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice and came to widespread use as a result of Black Lives Matter. [3] [4] The "Stay Woke" documentary gives a deeper understanding to how the movement came to be and what the movement believes. [5] The film debuted on BET on May 26 ...
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When She Woke is a science fiction novel by American author Hillary Jordan, published in October 2011. It has been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, German, Portuguese and Chinese. It has been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, German, Portuguese and Chinese.