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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The anti-government protests in Cuba have invigorated the Cuban diaspora in Miami. While officials on the island have worked to quash demonstrations, Cubans have taken to Miami's streets each night.
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The recovery of victims' bodies from the rubble of the condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla., is nearing its end. Search crews have recovered 97 bodies so far.
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As the focus in Surfside, Fla., shifts to recovering the remains of those killed in the condo building collapse, officials say they're determined to reunite every family with those who died.
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One of the missing at the Surfside condo collapse is Leidy Luna, a nursing student and nanny for in-laws of Paraguay's president. It collapsed on the first night Luna had ever spent outside Paraguay.
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Preparations are underway for the demolition of the portion of the Champlain Towers South still standing.
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The collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium has led officials across Florida to search for other buildings that could be structurally unsafe. On Friday, a 156-unit building was evacuated.
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Hopes of rescuing more people from the collapsed building in Surfside, Fla., are fading.
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The Minneapolis community reacts to the sentencing of former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.
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On Friday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years for the murder of George Floyd.
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On Friday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years for the murder of George Floyd. A jury found Chauvin guilty on three counts in April.