In 2008, Erica Badu releases her song master teacher. Childish Gambino releases Redbone. The TV series woke comes out on Hulu about a black cartoonist having an awakening after experiencing police violence. And I think you know around the 2010s leading to 2020 it's used to capture an idea of questioning power and of radical politics but also taken less seriously in black vernacular.
How “woke” went from Marcus Garvey to Childish Gambino to Ron DeSantis.
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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