Adrian Florido

A new poll finds a majority of California voters oppose cash payments to the descendants of enslaved African-Americans. The findings highlight the political headwinds facing reparation efforts.

Many of the victims of Lahaina's fires lost not only their homes, but also their jobs. The unemployment crisis has spread to all of Maui as tourism has plummeted following the fires.

Nearly a month after a wildfire destroyed Lahaina, there are still questions about how many died in the blaze. Officials are facing pressure to let residents visit their destroyed properties.

California's Reparations Taskforce has issued its final recommendations for a state reparations program for the descendants of slaves. State lawmakers must now decide whether to adopt any of them.

Peru is bracing for a fresh wave of protests. Thousands of anti-government protesters have started converging on cities across the country calling for the resignation of the president.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Ruth Madievsky about her debut novel All Night Pharmacy, which tells a story of addiction and the love between sisters.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield about Russia backing out of the Black Sea Grain Deal with Ukraine.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive director and Chief Negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, about the decision by the actors' union to strike.

Severe storms have caused catastrophic flooding in Vermont this week. NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Eric Seitz from Pitchfork Farm on how the flooding has impacted farmers in the area.

A team of scientists have identified a geological site in Canada that they say best reflects a new epoch in Earth's history — the Anthropocene era. Francine McCarthy led the group.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut about the congressional hearing on the PGA Tour-LIV Golf deal.

The end of race-conscious admissions means universities will have to find race-neutral alternatives to diversify their student bodies. California, which already has a ban, has faced those challenges.

Economic problems in Puerto Rico forced the island's zoo to close. That meant a big move for an African elephant named Mundi.

Mundi the African elephant was the pride of Puerto Rico's only zoo. But her fate became entangled in the island's recent struggles with natural disasters and a debilitating debt crisis.

Families of victims of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, hosted a vigil to mark one year since the tragedy that forever altered their lives and their town.

In the year since 19 children and two teachers were killed inside their classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the search for healing has been elusive.

There are still many unresolved questions about the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. As they grasp for answers, surviving families and the broader community feel suspended in grief.

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with David Lorenz, director of the Maryland chapter of the Survivors Network of those abused by Priests, after the report on decades-long sex abuse in the Baltimore Diocese.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with director Daniel Goldhaber and actor and cowriter Ariela Barer about environmental activism through sabotage in their heist film How To Blow Up a Pipeline.

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with NBA player Patty Mills, point guard now of the Brooklyn Nets, about his work in organizing the Indigenous Basketball Association in his native Australia.