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  2. A brief history of 'wokeness' - AOL

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    “I think [woke is] an unusable word — although it is used all the time — because it doesn’t actually mean anything,” Tony Thorne, the author of “Dictionary of Contemporary Slang ...

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

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    By the mid-20th century, woke "had been extended figuratively to refer to being ‘aware’ or ‘well informed’ in a political or cultural sense," and the dictionary credited Badu's use of the ...

  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. Woke - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-20th century, woke had come to mean 'well-informed' or 'aware', [12] especially in a political or cultural sense. [7] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest such usage to a 1962 New York Times Magazine article titled "If You're Woke You Dig It" by African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley , describing the ...

  6. List of political hip-hop artists - Wikipedia

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    Name Years active Continent Country Origin (city, state) Language Main concerns 99 Posse: 1991–2005, 2009–present Europe Italy Naples, Campania Italian

  7. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  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. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of religious slurs or religious insults in the English language that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about adherents or non-believers of a given religion or irreligion, or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or contemptuous), or insulting manner.