Queen Latifah
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Modeled after Maria Shriver's Just Who Will You Be, Queen Latifah's goal with Put On Your Crown is to help young women build a strong sense of self-esteem. A US Dept. of Justice survey found that females ages 16-24 are more vulnerable to partner violence than any other group, almost triple the national average. Cases like Chris Brown's assault on pop star Rihanna showed an ugly side of adolescent life. However, Queen Latifah has always been a shining...
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Hip Hop The Songs That Shook America volume 6
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LADIES FIRST by Queen Latifah: The hip hop culture bows to the queens of rap.
3) Joyful noise
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
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The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the church choir to lift their spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But the discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear everything apart.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
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Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
5) Just Wright
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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"Leslie Wright (Latifah) is a straight-shooting physical therapist who gets the gig of a lifetime working with injured NBA star Scott McKnight (Common). Leslie not only whips Scott into shape, she helps take his game to the next level and all is going well-- until Leslie finds herself falling for him. Oblivious to her growing affection, Scott only has eyes for Morgan (Paula Patton), Leslie's sexy and seductive friend. With everything on the line,...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Follows the intertwining storylines of a diverse group of Los Angelenos as they navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love.
12) Mad Money
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Academy-Award®-winner Diane Keaton (Something's Gotta Give), Academy-Award®-nominee Queen Latifah (Chicago) and Katie Holmes (Thank You For Not Smoking) are all in for the crime of their lives! Deep inside the most secure bank in America, three desperate women from very different worlds cook up the most unlikely heist of the century: Smuggle out millions of dollars in worn-out currency headed for a Federal Reserve shredder every day. Taking the...
13) Living Out Loud
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Academy Award® winner Holly Hunter (Little Black Book) and Danny DeVito (Be Cool) star in this romantic comedy written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, acclaimed screenwriter of The Horse Whisperer and The Bridges of Madison County. Judith Nelson (Hunter), newly divorced, is consumed by vindictive fantasies of her ex-husband and his young bride. Her life is empty until she finds unexpected companions in a bold and sassy jazz singer (Queen Latifah,...
18) Hoodlum
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"Hoodlum" recounts the uneasy alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias who banded together to declare war on the black gangsters of New York's Harlem in the 1920s. Focusing on the relationship between the three rival leaders, "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), and Lucky Luciano (Andy Garcia), "Hoodlum" co-stars Vanessa Williams, Cicely Tyson, Queen Latifah, Richard Bradford and William Atherton and is a compelling...