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

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

Former longtime New York City Congressman and civil rights leader Charles Rangel died Monday at the age of 94, NBC New York ...

Harlem’s Congressman, Jazz’s Quiet Witness article by Hank Hehmsoth, published on June 5, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

Charlie Rangel, a former congressman from Harlem who was the lone surviving member of the Gang of Four, has died. He was 94.

In Washington, Mr. Rangel was a founding member ... One of the first, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, was in Harlem and regarded as a catalyst for what came to be known as the second ...

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

He then unseated longtime Harlem Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in a primary challenge en route to his election to Congress. During his time in Washington serving what is now New York's 13th ...

and little-known deals that reveal how power works in New York and Washington, D.C. In nearly all of his accounts, Rangel portrayed himself as a plain but street-smart everyman from Harlem trying ...

Charles B. Rangel, one of the most influential and enduring voices in American politics, passed away on May 26, 2025, at the ...

Performances in biographical movies such as “Malcolm X," The Hurricane," and “Antwone Fisher” made Denzel Washington a Hollywood legend. The Oscar winner ...