A San Francisco Bay-area school has cut ties with “Woke Kindergarten” after nationwide backlash against the program’s curriculum and its founder’s statements.

Once upon a time, many decades ago, “woke” was a term used mostly in Black spaces to underscore the importance of keeping a close eye on patterns of racism.

A bill seeking to eliminate "woke" words and phrases has been introduced in the West Virginia Legislature. Kathie Hess Crouse, one of the 11 Republican state delegates who sponsored the ...

A marker of just how much American politics has changed over the last eight years. By Nate Cohn Gov. Ron DeSantis after signing HB7, dubbed the “stop woke” bill, during a news conference in ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save “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.

Shortly after the election of Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025, a meme began circulating online that attributed a quote about what it meant to be "woke" to the new pontiff. The image showed the pope ...

Be woke. — Pope Leo XIV The meme also appeared on X , Instagram , Threads , Facebook , TikTok and Tumblr , and numerous Snopes readers contacted us to ask whether it was authentic.

Republicans can know what is meant by woke and disagree that adhering to the components of wokeness is valuable. Indeed, they are 46 percentage points more likely to see “woke” as an insult ...

Republicans “are masterminds at coming up with messaging that scares the Jim Crow hell out of their base. “Woke” is their latest stunt,” writes Clay Cane, who admonishes those who misuse ...

MILITARY ‘Woke’ military provisions are sticking points for GOP as vote on defense policy bill looms Republicans say they might prefer to delay NDAA until next year, when they will control House ...

Liberals claim that conservatives have turned the term woke into a catch-all bogeyman they can’t even define. The term “woke” was originally used in black communities in the 1940s, ’50s ...

What does 'woke' mean? For conservatives, it's so much more than political correctness. No one has elevated the fight against 'woke' more than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.