Omar Wasow was studying race and politics at Stanford University when on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted the police officers who beat Rodney King of almost all charges. For nearly a week, Los Angeles ...
Protests have the power to change the political landscape and history is proof. An assistant professor who studied unrest in the 1960s says how things change is determined by the way protesters share ...
Omar Wasow became an assistant professor of politics this fall to teach students on race and identity. But before he joined the Princeton faculty, he spent his time before a different sort of audience ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Omar Wasow is an Executive Editor for the Blackplanet.com with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Forum as a Correspondent for MSNBC. The ...
Two hotly competing narratives have emerged over the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to California. On one side, the ...
Omar Wasow is an assistant professor in Princeton’s Department of Politics. His research focuses on race and politics, protest movements and statistical methods. Before joining the academy, Omar ...
In the years since BlackPlanet launched, Tom Anderson sold Myspace to News Corp. for hundreds of millions of dollars. Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook... Editor's Note: As part of Tell Me More's ...
With gas prices still hovering at $2 a gallon in many parts of the United States, will travelers be priced out of a summer road trip this year? Maybe not, for those driving a hybrid car. Omar Wasow of ...
Tech Guru Omar Wasow: Gadget Guide to 2003NPR's Tony Cox checks in with tech guru Omar Wasow, who gives us a list of the best techie gadgets of 2003. He'll also weigh in on what's going to be "hot" in ...
The youth vote was a big part of President Biden's victory in 2020, but one issue among many that now has voters under 30 dissatisfied with the president is his response to the war in Gaza. Some of ...