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June 11, 2026

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Democrat from New York, and the first Black chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means was born in 1930 in Harlem.

Back & Forth With Carl Sharif: Episode 2

POSTED: February 05, 2009, 9:15 am

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Cherone Motayne is a Black Republican in the age of Obama.

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