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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Volunteers are restoring the Manzanar War Reloctation Center's baseball field. In the fall, Japanese-American baseball players play where many of their families were held during World War II.
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Texas' immigration law has raised fear that it'll promote racial profiling by police. The concerns evoke memories of what happened after Arizona passed its so-called "show me your papers" law in 2010.
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The nonprofit suspended work in Gaza after the airstrike. It has become a major player in efforts to feed people in regions devastated by disaster or war. Several workers have been killed in Ukraine.
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The Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles has, for the first time ever, compiled the names of all 125,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated during World War II.
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California legislators have introduced more than a dozen bills in response to a report issued by the reparations taskforce. Notably absent is cash compensation for the descendants of enslaved people.
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The University of California has rejected a proposal that would've allowed undocumented students to be hired for jobs within the university system. Its Board of Regents said there were too many risks.
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In Puerto Rico, solidarity with the cause of Palestinians runs deep, in large part because of their shared colonial histories and struggles for self-determination.
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In Puerto Rico, the Christmas "parranda" – in which musicians show up unannounced to play at homes – has been on the decline. A group of young people is keeping it alive in one mountain town.
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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.
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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.