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Charles Rangel: Harlem’s Congressman, Jazz’s Quiet Witness

by Hank Hehmsoth
June 5, 2025

Charles Rangel was more than a Congressman. He was Harlem's heartbeat--a living archive of its culture, community, and sound. In the National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Harlem Speaks Oral History series, Rangel reflects on growing up with the music, the icons who defined a generation, and how jazz was inseparable from Black life in 20th-century America. ...