Using 'therapy speak' terms like gaslighting and emotional labor could be dumbing down the English ... word woke — used to describe being progressive — as he says its original meaning ...

Parents and teachers should not mock young people for being “woke”, the head of the Girls’ Schools Association has argued. In a speech, Samantha Price, headmistress of Benenden School in ...

What is woke? It is an adjective of African American vernacular meaning “aware of discrimination,” similar to the general ...

Woke with the meaning “alert to racial and social injustices” was certainly around in the early 1900s. One of its early appearances was in Lead Belly’s 1938 song “Scottsboro Boys”, where ...

But wokeness is about waking up to the social injustices of the world – so how did the phrase lose its original meaning ... woke”, like many other AAVE (African-American Vernacular English ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire innovator behind Tesla, SpaceX, and X, has a knack for stirring the pot. Whether it’s launching ...

Varada Sethu, the new star of Doctor Who, has defended the BBC and Disney+ series against claims it has gone “woke.” In an ...