Adrian Florido
Adrian Florido is a national correspondent for NPR covering race and identity in America.
He was previously a reporter for NPR's Code Switch team.
His beat takes him around the country to report on major flashpoints over race and racism, but also on the quieter nuances and complexities of how race is lived and experienced in the United States.
In 2018 he was based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria while on a yearlong special assignment for NPR's National Desk.
Before joining NPR in 2015, he was a reporter at NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles, covering public health. Before that, he was the U.S.-Mexico border reporter at KPBS in San Diego. He began his career as a staff writer at the Voice of San Diego.
Adrian is a Southern California native. He was news editor of the Chicago Maroon, the student paper at the University of Chicago, where he studied history. He's also an organizer of the Fandango Fronterizo, an annual event during which musicians gather on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and play together through the fence that separates the two countries.
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Donald Trump often focuses on Venezuelans when he warns about criminal immigrants coming to the U.S. It's a narrative that has surprisingly taken root even in some Venezuelan-American communities. It offers a window into why support for deportations seems to be rising among some Latinos. -
Puerto Rico’s unstable electric grid affects every sector of society, including the island’s rich cultural scene. An outage abruptly ended an emerging pianist’s recent concert, touching a nerve. -
Chants calling for “intifada” have been a prominent feature of pro-Palestinian student protests. It’s a charged word whose use is perceived differently by people with opposing views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -
Students arrested at Columbia University and the City College of New York spoke with NPR about their choice to risk legal and academic consequences. -
After Oklahoma Republicans targeted public school lessons on race and gender, some Black teachers and parents in Tulsa have banded together to ensure their kids still get honest Black history. -
A new poll finds a majority of California voters oppose cash payments to the descendants of enslaved African-Americans. The findings highlight the political headwinds facing reparation efforts. -
A team of scientists have identified a geological site in Canada that they say best reflects a new epoch in Earth's history — the Anthropocene era. Francine McCarthy led the group.
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Mundi the African elephant was the pride of Puerto Rico's only zoo. But her fate became entangled in the island's recent struggles with natural disasters and a debilitating debt crisis. -
There are still many unresolved questions about the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. As they grasp for answers, surviving families and the broader community feel suspended in grief. -
They were arraigned on charges of murder, assault and other felonies. Tyre Nichols died three days after officers beat him following a Jan. 7 traffic stop.
