In this June 16, 2016, file photo, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rangel retired after more than four decades in office.
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Charles Rangel, longtime Harlem congressman and political trailblazer, dies at 94
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 Caucus, died Monday, May 27, 2025, at age 94.