Charles Rangel, 94, dean of New York’s Congressional delegation and the first African-American to chair the House Ways and ...

The first Black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he was a political force for decades, only to be tarnished by ...

New York congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat and a Harlem native, represented his district in Manhattan for close to 50 ...

In his 2006 autobiography, “And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress,” Rangel ...

Charles B. Rangel, a civil rights activist, war hero and trailblazing New York congressman whose career saw the high school ...

New York's Charlie Rangel served in Congress for nearly five decades and was the first Black chair of the powerful House Ways ...

In 1950, as an Army private who’d dropped out of DeWitt Clinton High School, Rangel took to ordering people around, posturing ...

The late congressman’s upending of New York politics by choosing progressivism over partisanship offers a lesson for today.

Charles B. Rangel, a gravelly voiced and exuberant congressman from the Harlem neighborhood of New York who became the first African American chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee but was ...

The congressman from Harlem was a force on Capitol Hill — and a familiar presence on the streets he represented for decades.

Former New York Rep. Charles Rangel, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus who spent more than four decades in ...

In this June 16, 2016, file photo, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.(Lauren Victoria Burke / AP) NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel ...