The term "woke" is often used in reference to progressive, politically correct stances on race, gender ideology and other hot-button topics.

“Woke” is now best known as a negative political buzzword used to describe anything deemed too liberal or progressive—like brands that support Pride Month, The Little Mermaid live-action film and ...

The word “woke” is thrown around absurdly often, from college campuses and M&M candies, to Silicon Valley Bank, but what does it actually mean? During an interview on The Hill’s online program Rising, ...

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 Hialeah ...

Liberals claim that conservatives have turned the term into a catch-all bogeyman they can’t even define — even though it’s a word that progressives themselves use. But as someone who has explored this ...

In 1939, Billie Holiday gave voice to a nation’s darkest truths with Strange Fruit, her haunting lament for the bodies of Black men and women hanging from ...

Over the past two years conversations about race, gender and equity have become more mainstream and in some cases more contentious. That’s why KPBS Race & Equity Reporter Cristina Kim has been ...

Regina Jackson and Saira Rao achieved a degree of fame at the height of the backlash in 2020 after police killed George Floyd, an unarmed black American accused of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit ...

In May 2019, Gillette released an ad on Facebook just in time for Pride month. It featured Samson Bonkeabantu Brown—a Black Toronto artist and trans man—learning how to shave for the first time. “I ...

Just how woke is your nearest medical school? Likely very woke — yet the organization that helps oversee medical schools thinks it’s not woke enough. So says the Association of American Medical ...

President Donald Trump’s second administration is all-in on AI — just not the woke kind. Amid his weeklong flurry of executive orders, the real estate mogul-turned-president suggested in his latest ...