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Ben Jealous, who lead the NAACP for five years and helped re-energize that organization, is stepping down as president and CEO at the end of this year.

The Democracy Initiative and Demos co-sponsored a Capitol Hill briefing for congressional staff on the new report ?Stacked Deck: How the Dominance of Politics by the Affluent & Business Undermines Economic Mobility in America.?

Democracy demands an independent news media free of government interference. But recently, journalists have been the subject of surveillance in the government's pursuit of whistleblowers.

Los Angeles street artist and activist Ramiro Gomez is making the invisible visible. To raise awareness about immigrant service workers in our communities, Gomez has been painting life-size cardboard portraits of day laborers and domestic workers in locations where these real people work every day.

October 3, 2013, is an important day for Laborers who performed recovery or clean-up work following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.