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Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, who represented New York's Harlem neighborhood for nearly a half century and helped cofound the Congressional Black Caucus, has died at the age of 94. Rangel ...
“Black excellence in Harlem, in New York, and in the United States survived because of the work Charlie and his cohorts did to keep it alive,” the Rev. Al Sharpton, who knew Rangel for more ...
Former Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), a Harlem native who served nearly five decades in the House of Representatives, died Monday at the age of 94. Rangel was first elected to Congress in 1970 ...
Charlie Rangel, the longtime Democratic congressman from Harlem and last surviving member of the storied “Gang of Four” coalition, has died at 94. The City College of New York (CCNY) confirmed ...
Years before longtime Rep. Charlie Rangel became Harlem’s longtime Democratic representative in Congress, he was an artillery specialist in the Korean War. In November 1950, near the North ...
Rangel was first elected to Congress in 1970, and he co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus and was the first black chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. “He served for 23 terms in the ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Charlie Rangel, a former congressman from Harlem who was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the lone surviving member of the "Gang of Four," has died.