Where did the term woke originate? What does it mean? And how has the meaning of woke changed over the years and become weaponised?

Wokeness: what does it mean and how did it become weaponised?

’Stay woke’ entered popular culture, becoming the latest cool word to use. This not only erased all the socio-political connotations, but made it gimmicky     

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Piers Morgan has become the latest person to weaponise the word woke, hot on the heels of Laurence Fox.

How did the word ‘woke’ become weaponised?