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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U.S. and Iran are nearing a tentative deal to end the conflict, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and curb Tehran's uranium stockpile — though major details remain unresolved.
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There have been more than 900 suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola, resulting in more than 180 deaths. It's the first major outbreak the Trump Administration drastically cut health aid programs.
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As both the US and Iran signal a peace deal is near, Robert Kagan, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, says the U.S. will likely come out weaker than before the war.
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NPR's Star Wars nerds talk about whether the franchise still has the juice, as 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' hits the cinemas.
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President Donald Trump posted to social media on Saturday afternoon that a deal to end the war with Iran "will be announced" shortly.
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Nate Rott's beat takes him to some really wild places, asking thorny ethical questions that emerge as he reports on the natural world and humanity's relationship to it
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American University professor William LeoGrande explains how the Supreme Court's decision to allow lawsuits seeking compensation for assets seized in the Cuban revolution to move forward fits in context of current political crisis on the island.
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In the series "How to Evict Your Landlord," WUWM reporters Sam Woods and Jimmy Gutierrez tell the story of how a group of tenants are working to push out one of the city's largest corporate landlords.
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Maximo Torero, Chief Economist at The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, warns that the war in Iran is choking the global supply of fertilizer and a food crisis could follow within a year.
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Kristine Berzina, Senior Fellow at the non-partisan think tank The German Marshall Fund, discusses the confusion over changing plans for U.S. troop deployments in Europe.