Charles B. Rangel, a decorated Korean War veteran and founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, died on Memorial Day at age 94. Representing Harlem for nearly five decades in Congress, he was a tireless advocate for civil rights,

His voice carried through the halls of Congress, but his heart never left home.” Lloyd Williams, President and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce “It is sadly appropriate that my close friend and mentor ‘The Lion Of Lenox Avenue’ the great Charles B.

In his 2006 autobiography, “And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress,” Rangel famously noted that the day he was wounded in the Korean War at the Battle of Kunu-ri in 1950 as a 20-year-old staff sergeant was the worst day of his life. But ever since then, he said he “never had a bad day since.”