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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Iconic civil rights leader Dolores Huerta has died at 96. In the 1960s, Huerta co-founded, with Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American union that would become the United Farm Workers.
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The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city's Black community.
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The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.
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Puerto Rico's government will begin rationing water on Friday as the island copes with its worst drought in more than a decade.
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Many of the people being caught up in Trump's ongoing mass deportation campaign are immigrants who've spent decades living in the U.S. Some deported Mexicans are staying in the border city of Tijuana.
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National Park advocates and educators have sued to stop the Trump administration from taking down park displays about slavery, Native American removal, and other ugly chapters in U.S. history.
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An internal DHS memo said ICE agents can enter people's homes without a judicial warrant. This contradicts decades of legal precedent.
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A woman left her front yard Christmas tree half-decorated after immigration agents questioned men helping her. She sees it as a symbol of the immigration crackdown's human and economic costs. -
In a scathing opinion, a federal judge called the Trump administration's attempts to deport non-citizens because of their Palestinian activism a "full-throated assault on the First Amendment."
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In a victory for President Trump, the Supreme Court cleared the way for sweeping immigration operations to resume in Los Angeles.
