The word woke is all over our screens, the campaign trail, the news\u2026 but what does it really mean and where did it start? How did it become a bad thing?
The earliest usages of woke date back to the early 20th century and the idea of Black people \u201ckeeping their eyes open\u201d to the realities of white supremacist violence. \u201cStay woke!\u201d continued as a warning call until it started to enter the mainstream and lose its original meaning.
And the non-affirming, ultra-religious crowd has now succeeded in making \u201cwoke\u201d a bad, negative term.
But it\u2019s not, and it shouldn\u2019t be \u2013 and we want to help reclaim that.\xa0 #WokeAF