awakened

It wasn’t until I became a parent while living in New York that I became fully awakened to the upsides and downsides of raising a child in a major city.

Before it was co-opted by conservatives, the term "woke" was an expression originating in 1940s African American vernacular that meant being awakened to the presence of racial injustice.

People were awakened by screams and came out to see what was going on, she said, but the armed men told them they would be shot if they did not go back into their houses.

It has also awakened a hunger for their own culture, described by one daily newspaper as a “Ukrainian cultural boom”.

The first Black and Asian American female vice president already has awakened young voters and people of color.