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He was also a columnist for the New York Daily News from to At Columbia College he was active in the anti-Vietnam War movement and played a leading role in the protests that shut down the college in spring as one of three "Strike Central" representatives on the strike coordinating committee. In , he was elected president of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, a political organization that concentrated on registering Latino voters.

In December , he reported the results of an exclusive interview with the purported "fourth man" who was present at the scene on November 25 when plainclothes NYPD officers shot and killed Sean Bell. He was the first reporter in New York City to write on the health effects arising from the September 11, attacks. He has said that a prime motivating force in his work has been, "a sense about the unjust treatment of people".

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