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 ...

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

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