The word "woke" is traced to a recording of the protest song "Scottsboro Boys" by renowned blues artist Lead Belly in the 1930s. The Scottsboro Boys were nine Black teenagers falsely accused of raping ...

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The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change marks MLK Day on Jan. 20, 2025, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Photo: Delano Massey/Axios ...

When the Trump administration this week put on hold grant, loan and other financial assistance programs, one of the reasons cited was to give White House staffers time to assess them for "woke ...

To hear critics describe it, President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is a disaster. But take it from someone who worked at USAID for three years ...

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Conservatives were not the ones who invented woke, but they certainly responded. The 2016 election was the major sign of this reaction. In 2020, covid made everyone stay home, making time for the ...

Over 6,000 Hollywood workers have signed a petition urging TV and film productions to stay in L.A. in the wake of the wildfires to help the “city rebuild itself.” Julie Bowen, Alison Brie ...

American Christianity includes more than 200 denominations. One of the fastest growing is the orthodoxy of Woke. Woke Christianity is the single greatest threat to the modern church since the first ...

And yet, there is no evidence this is happening. Black people urging one another to “stay woke” are trying to inspire increased awareness of racial injustice. Because far too often, the experiences of ...

In recent discourse, a group of thinkers—most largely championed by James Lindsay—has begun publicly criticizing an ideology that they refer to as the “Woke Right.” The idea is that it is the ...