Vanessa Williams
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Key to the Kingdom is a story that will teach children the good news that Jesus loves them, and has a plan for their life.
This story was written after praying for a unique Easter program for a small country church outreach.
Jesus used parables to explain things when he walked on earth, and this parable explains that he is the Key to the Kingdom on a child's level. The story explains sin, separation from God, and why the death, burial, and resurrection...
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From singer, actress, and dancer Vanessa Williams comes a sweet, sparkling story about a young girl whose beloved pet fish has wonderful, magical powers. She gives me bubble kisses, bubble kisses as she swims by in the water. She never misses with her bubble kisses. And I'm so glad I got her. A young girl adores her goldfish, Sal. But Sal is no ordinary pet: while she can't fetch a ball or curl up on a lap, she can give bubble kisses that transform...
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This drama set in antebellum New Orleans stars Vanessa Williams as Henriette Delille, the first African-American canonized by the Vatican. A mixed-race woman who repudiates the hypocrisy of race, class and convention, Henriette chooses to accept a divine calling to help the downtrodden by founding a combination medical treatment center and school for the French community's black population. Diahann Carroll and Stacy Keach costar.
12) Bad kitty
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When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad.
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A star-studded tribute to the contributions of African-Americans in film over the last century. Film shorts feature premier artists such as Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, amd many more. Includes interviews with major stars such as Snoop Dogg, Ice T., Quincy Jones, Spike Lee and Russell Simmons.
15) Candyman
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Oscarʼ winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleash a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him...
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Elmo and his blue blanket are inseparable. When Oscar carelessly tosses the fuzzy blanket into his trash can, Elmo dives in after it. He is suddenly plunged into Grouchland, the land of Grouches, stinky garbage and the greedy Huxley who hasn't learned how to share. Elmo and his friends from Sesame Street embark on an adventure to rescue Elmo's blanket.
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Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
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"In January 1785, a young African American slave named Elizabeth was put on board the Lucretia in New York Harbor, bound for Charleston, where she would be sold to her fifth master in just 22 years. Leaving behind a small child she had little hope of ever seeing again, Elizabeth was faced with the stark reality of being sold south to a life quite different from any she had known before. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of the family she...
20) Mid-Century
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A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.