Perezs commitment to serving his community extends beyond his journalism. In 1979 he was instrumental in helping police persuade three Spanish speaking gunmen to release two dozen hostages held in a Brooklyn supermarket. Two years later he spent three months disguised as an illegal alien and wrote a fourpart series for the Daily News on sweatshops: "The new slavery." for which he was awarded the Public Service Award of the Public Relations Society of America. New York chapter. Upon graduation from Columbia. he went to work for the Daily News as one of the few Englishlanguage Latino columnists in the country at that time.
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