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 ...

The Oxford English Dictionary can never let slang just be slang. In the past, it's tried to bond with its fellow kids with words such as hot mess, YOLO, and manspreading much to all of our eye-rolling ...

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 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 ...

Gray Rohrer of the news outlet Florida Politics was in the courtroom last week as staffers for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) were asked an interesting question: What does “woke” mean? The federal ...

“Woke” is currently the favorite word of the right. Republican politicians can’t go more that 5 or 6 words without peppering “woke” into their sentences. Turning on Fox News, you’ll hear the word ...

Within the past two years, conservatives have coveted “woke” as their new buzzword to drive their agenda. Most of those jokers don’t even know what “being woke” even means, which was proven through an ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Bill Maher‘s comments on a recent CNN interview created some push-back from panelists on today’s episode of The View, with both Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin taking ...

Political ideology is now a significant risk factor in corporate governance. This is no more apparent than when the term “woke capitalism” is invoked. The term is used by the political right as a ...

"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.