What is woke and what does it really mean?
"Woke" is a term appropriated from Black communities and has now been used by the right against them and other groups.
March 7, 2025
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"Woke" is a term appropriated from Black communities and has now been used by the right against them and other groups.
Chaz Stevens is using Florida GOP's "stop WOKE act" to prove the Bible's inclusion of topics like racism and LGBTQ+ issues makes it inappropriate for classrooms.
The ad is part of a pair from Equality Florida's campaign against GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis's anti-LGBTQ+ legislative agenda.
New York Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Ritchie Torres, and at least 50 House Democratic co-sponsors introduced the LGBTQI+ and Women's History Education Act today.
If Missouri lawmakers had their way, young people wouldn't learn anything about LGBTQ+ people until they're out of high school.
"This bill is a direct attack on the LGBTQ+ community and its allies, and it will have a detrimental impact on the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ children in Florida."
Employers don't have to respect employees' pronouns or their preferences in dress or restrooms, the federal judge ruled in a suit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
As DeSantis announces his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, we review how he's attacked LGBTQ+ people and other marginalized communities.
Florida's war on progress was rejected by an unlikely figure.
Republicans don’t know what the word means, but they know they hate everything having to do with it.
I’m directly affected by the authoritarian policies of our ambitious and ruthless governor.
Voting is important, but it's not enough -- we also must make politicians and media address the effects of actions that roll back our rights.
Greene, outraged by a clip of a trans woman attempting to breastfeed, says the woman and her husband should lose custody of their child.
A U.K. court heard the allegation as part of Spacey's ongoing sexual abuse trial.
Republicans are using the term as an insult, but in a new poll, many Americans beg to differ.
The Republican governor of Florida really did that.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state is "fighting back," but who is the enemy the anti-LGBTQ+ governor is trying to combat?
State Rep. Ramon Alexander says the relationship was consensual.
Healey, the governor of Massachusetts, denounced the Florida governor's anti-LGBTQ+ and racist actions.
(CNN) Contentious laws went into effect in Florida during the summer recess that restrict how schools teach topics linked to race and sexual orientation.
Critics of Florida's governor say that he needs to take the class that he's trying to ban to understand what he's talking about.