Charles Rangel, the longtime U.S. congressman from New York City and the last surviving member of the "Gang of Four," has died. He was 94.

Charlie Rangel ate and slept politics, and was always ready to whip up a story from his vast catalogue of insights, anecdotes, alliance, rivalries and little-known deals that reveal how power works in New York and Washington.

Charles B. Rangel, a civil rights activist, war hero and trailblazing New York congressman whose career saw the high school dropout rise to become one of the most influential Black politicians in modern history,