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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York has died at age 94. The outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member ...

The Democrat represented a New York City district including the historically Black neighborhood of Harlem for nearly 50 years.