Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. -- son of civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson -- was sent to solitary confinement earlier this year for helping other inmates understand and assert their rights, then transferred to a different prison. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Jackson was segregated from the inmate population for four to five days after a guard took exception to his advisement of other prisoners of their rights.
Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins sat with a panel of reporters on Meet the Press. NBC broadcast the show three days before King delivered the historic "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington.
A North Florida man shot two people dead and left two more wounded before turning the gun on himself Saturday, according to news reports around Gainesville.
A Boston-area mosque has refused to bury the body of 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the men allegedly behind the Boston Marathon bombing, his aunt tells NBC News.
Jeff Bauman, Jr., who helped authorities in their search for the suspects connected to Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon, has taken to social media to enlist help in paying his medical bills.
