(AFRO.com)—In the midst of divorce from husband Jesse James, Sandra Bullock is welcoming a new man in her life—an adopted Black baby from New Orleans, the New York Post reported.

In the most recent issue of People magazine, Bullock revealed that she and James had officially filed for divorce and she had also completed the adoption process, now becoming the mother of 3-month-old Louis Bardo Bullock. Bullock’s new baby was born into post-Katrina New Orleans, where Bullock and James had previously decided to adopt.

NEW MOTHER—Actress Sandra Bullock with her newly adopted child Louis Bardo Bullock on the cover of People magazine.

by Valencia Mohammed
For New Pittsburgh Courier

(AFRO.com)—Richard Barrett, 67, general counsel of the Nationalist Movement, which he founded in Mississippi, was found dead in his home April 22, in Rankin County, Miss.

Police said the attorney, well-known for his public opposition to the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday and his anti-Jena Six demonstrations, was murdered. And they have charged Barrett’s neighbor, Vincent McGee, a 22-year old Black male who was released from prison in February for arson, with the crime. Records indicate Barrett was stabbed and bludgeoned. His home was also set on fire.

RICHARD BARRETT

Week of May 7-13

May 7

1800—On this date the founder of the settlement, which would grow to become the city of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, sold his property and left the settlement. The Haitian-born frontier trader and businessman would die 18 years later in St. Charles, Mo.

1878—Black inventor, J.R. Winters, receives a patent for his designing of the fire escape ladder.

ROBERT SMALLS

WASHINGTON (NNPA)—President Barack Obama needs only to turn over in his bed to be reminded of all the Black women who are powerfully qualified to be U.S. Supreme Court justices.

If first lady Michelle Obama was not his wife, some legal scholars say she would be a clear and obvious candidate for the short list to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

Yet, when Stevens announced his retirement April 9, not one Black woman immediately surfaced as a so-called “short-list” candidate despite the fact that no Black woman has ever served on the high court. Now the name of former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears began circulating as one that the president is seriously considering. The National Bar Association has put forth the name of Justice Ann Claire Williams, the first African-American ever appointed to the Seventh Circuit and the third African-American woman ever to serve on any United States Court of Appeals.