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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Small fires are still burning in the city after violent protests Thursday night. Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed, died in police custody. Protests are expected to continue into the weekend.
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After weeks of public pressure, Puerto Rico's governor allowed some school cafeterias to provide meals for children during the pandemic. But many on the island say it's not enough.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance giving the mayor 12 days to secure thousands of rooms to house and protect the city's homeless population during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Some of the strictest measures to contain COVID-19 are in Puerto Rico, where the governor has effectively shut the island down amid fears its health system is too weak after Hurricane Maria.
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People across the island are collecting donations for those displaced by earthquakes. Rather than give them to the government, they're delivering the goods to the affected region themselves.
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It's an anxious time for people in Puerto Rico. Saturday's 5.9 magnitude earthquake was the latest of both large and small tremors that have rattled the island for more than two weeks.
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A congressional ban on the sport was a victory for animal rights activists, but on the island, many say that cockfighting is part of their culture — and they're willing to take the sport underground.
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Two years after the storm hit Puerto Rico, the most visible remnants of it are the thousands of damaged homes still covered in blue tarps. Frustrated neighbors are helping others repair their homes.
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Ricardo Rosselló will resign the office effective Aug. 2. He made the announcement in a recorded address posted online, as thousands of protesters packed the streets outside his executive residence.
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Some of the island's biggest stars attended, and tensions ratcheted up in San Juan when protesters burst through a barricade at the governor's mansion and security forces fired tear gas at the crowd.