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The Harlem community was in mourning Monday after the death of Charles Rangel, the longtime United States congressman who had a profound impact on the neighborhood. From community centers to ...
It was a great day in Harlem. Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and many other jazz greats gathered on a stoop on 126th St. in 1958 to be photographed together by Art Kane. There were ...
Raymond Jones, nicknamed the Harlem Fox, who eventually became the Grand Sachem, or top boss, of the Tammany Hall Democratic machine and mentored a generation of uptown leaders. “He knew ...
Years before longtime Rep. Charlie Rangel became Harlem’s longtime Democratic representative in Congress, he was an artillery specialist in the Korean War. In November 1950, near the North ...
Once known as the "Lion of Lenox Avenue," the outspoken, gravel-voiced Rangel served as a representative for what is now New York's 13th congressional district in Harlem from 1971 until 2017.
A man has died after a fire in a Hilliard condominium, according to a news release from the Norwich Township Fire Department. The Norwich Township Fire Department responded to a fire at 6:27 a.m ...
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 ...
He was 94. Born in Harlem on June 11, 1930, Rangel was a Democratic member of the House of Representatives for 46 years after unseating the legendary Adam Clayton Powell Jr. He was a Korean War ...
A mainstay of Harlem’s Democratic old guard, Mr. Rangel was first elected to Congress in 1970.Credit...Eddie Hausner/The New York Times Supported by By Sam Roberts Charles B. Rangel, the former ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Charlie Rangel, a former congressman from Harlem who was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the lone surviving member of the "Gang of Four," has died.