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Woke: The Journey of a Word - Episode 1

Seriously...

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I'm Awaked Up Now

The Scottsboro Boys served over a hundred years in prison. Their case inspired the first use of woke on record, but Lead Belly's remark is a distant relative of the word as it's used by many today. Kip Lornell: "Woke" has evolved into something much greater and much different than I believe what, in my opinion, Lead Belly was talking about."

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