This column will be boring to read. You know I try. I really do, but there is no other way. This week I write about ...

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 ...