New York congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat and a Harlem native, represented his district in Manhattan for close to 50 years.

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 his 2006 autobiography, “And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress,” Rangel ...

Charles Rangel, the longtime New York congressman, is being remembered with a series of public viewings in Harlem and City ...

Charles Rangel, dean of New York’s congressional delegation and the first African-American to chair the House Ways and Means Committee, died Monday in a New York hospital. He was 94. The City ...

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 ...

Charles Rangel spoke at a news conference outside ... Remy Tumin contributed reporting. Sam Roberts is an obituaries reporter for The Times, writing mini-biographies about the lives of remarkable ...

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 ...

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 Black ...

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five ...