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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Ukrainian refugees arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are enjoying expedited admission to the U.S. But children who arrive with family other than their parents are still being separated and detained.
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Hundreds of refugees from Ukraine have arrived in the U.S. via Mexico. Many have stayed at a shelter in Tijuana, waiting for permission to cross the border.
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Thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the war have come to the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, where immigration agents are letting them into the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
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New research finds that white Americans made aware about COVID's racial disparities cared less about the virus themselves. The data have potential implications for public health messaging.
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Lynching is now a federal crime. A bill signed by President Biden formally defines lynching — for the first time in federal law — as hate-motivated violence.
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What started as an art project at a California elementary school has gone viral. The free hotline offers wise advice and encouraging messages from kids to anyone who calls. -
Adrian Florido speaks to Miami-based musician riela about her new EP, Llorar y Perrear. -
An Indian medical student in Sumy says she and classmates had to use snow for drinking water while they await hopeful evacuation to flee the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Adrian Florido speaks with Chilean journalist Francisca Skoknic about Chile's new president, Gabriel Boric, who will take power on Friday.
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Adrian Florido speaks to University of Utah Health's Dr. Torri Metz about the dangers of being pregnant and unvaccinated for COVID-19