The courage to love
(2000)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Screen Media Ventures : Made available through hoopla, 2000
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 video file (ca. 88 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT11637720, 11637720
LANGUAGE
English
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Directed by Kari Skogland

Vanessa Williams, Gil Bellows, Stacy Keach, Diahann Carroll

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

Rated PG-13

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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