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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Puerto Rico's government began cutting water service to people's homes this week, amid a severe drought that's exposing major weaknesses in the island's water delivery infrastructure.
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Puerto Rico's government will begin rationing water on Friday as the island copes with its worst drought in more than a decade.
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In its lawsuit alleging racial profiling, the ACLU uncovered bodycam footage and texts in which immigration agents used slurs to describe Latinos targeted in Los Angeles raids last year. -
A Supreme Court ruling stripped Haitian migrants of their temporary legal status. Those with U.S.-born children face an agonizing choice if deported: Should they take them to a still-dangerous Haiti? -
A resident of San Juan, Puerto Rico, shares the toll of living without running water for nearly two months.
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President Trump says a deal has been reached to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's Franco Ordoñez discusses what we know and what comes next.
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump's order to remove some exhibits at national parks. One historic site targeted by that order faces an uncertain future. -
Many Iranians say they can no longer afford the lives they once had. Writer and historian Arash Azizi talks with NPR's Adrian Florido about the economic pressures reshaping daily life.
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Sleep-deprived teens, devoted dads, and hundreds of birds. NPR spends twenty four hours at the World Series of Birding.
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Military strikes, sanctions and political pressure are becoming hallmarks of Trump's Latin America policy. NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with historian Greg Grandin about what's driving the shift.
