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Rapper Mike Skinner is Britain's version of the hip-hop star, but his second CD is more soap opera than thug life. Known as "The Streets," Skinner tells an entire story from start to end, involving girls, drugs, and returning video rentals. Critic Will Hermes a review the new CD, A Grand Don't Come for Free.

NPR's Robert Siegel reports on Friday's testimony of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding allegations of abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers at a facility once used for torture by Saddam Hussein's regime.

Since Sunday is Mother's Day, we took the opportunity to talk with a well-known musical mother and her daughter about how they share music. Pianist Wu Han, and her husband, cellist David Finckel, live with their daughter, Lillian, in New York. Lillian is 10 years old and has been playing piano for several years, and she just started playing violin. Fred talks with mother and daughter about their relationship. Then, from a concert at Union College in Schenectady, New York, we hear Lillian's parents play the Cello Sonata No. 4, by Beethoven.

NPR's Robert Siegel is in Massachusetts, where he accompanied two men who were married Monday. Craig St. Clair and Brent Sverdloff have been together for 12 years -- we found out what marriage means to both men, and hear their ceremony by a justice of the peace in Brookline, Mass.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Give (Columbia) the latest by the trio The Bad Plus.

A new Department of Defense report criticizes the way the military handles internal cases of sexual assault. A task force examined how the military cares for sexual assault victims, and investigated cases in which troops are accused of attacking their colleagues. The report calls for a wide range of improvements including rape prevention, criminal investigation and victim counseling. NPR's John Burnett reports.

The commander of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq vows to address cases of abuse against Iraqi prisoners. But Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller says there are no plans to shut down Abu Ghraib prison, site of reported abuses. Meanwhile, Army Pfc. Lynddie England became the seventh soldier to face criminal charges in the abuse scandal.

In 1949, when he was 24, Greenberg joined the Inc. Fund, which would later be called the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He worked on some of the most important civil rights cases, including representing Martin Luther King, Jr. He also led the Fund's campaigns to help integrate the University of Alabama and the University of Mississippi. With others, he tried the Delaware and Topeka cases of Brown v. Board of Education. His memoir and history of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is called Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement.

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who wrote the report on Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, appears Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In his report, Taguba chides military intelligence officials for putting under their command poorly trained military police at Abu Ghraib and for involving them in efforts to make detainees more cooperative in interrogation sessions. NPR's David Welna reports.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, leader of an independent panel investigating allegations of corruption in the Iraqi oil-for-food program managed by the United Nations, says his team must be given full access to documents in Baghdad. But the panel is only one of several investigations underway, and questions have arisen over which group should have the documents first. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.