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

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

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

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

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional ...

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

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

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

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 ...