dantheman, honestly, I’ve not heard of any of those movies.
Ever…
Sounds like I was lucky 
~J
Long Walk Home was about racism in the Old South (IIRC) and was with Sissy Spacek (Whoopi was the maid). Corrina was about a youngish widower (Ray Liotta) and his silent daughter (Whoopi was the nanny). I forget what the other two were about, because I didn’t see them. Oh, and what about Homer and Eddie?!
dantheman, you’re kidding, right? Long Walk Home was about the Montgomery bus boycott! It wasn’t a particularly great movie, but the fact was that some of the people most affected by the boycott were black women in service positions in white communities which were literally on the other side of the city from where they lived. And Whoopi’s Corrina in Corrina, Corrina was a writer who took a job as a maid and how the family (both daughter and widower father) fell in love with her despite racial differences. There was no shucking and jiving or "oh, ma’am, I done broked a plate, I so sorry, I so sorry! routine. Just because she was playing “the help” doesn’t mean that the role was demeaning.
As for Jumping Jack Flash just because she said “I’m a little black woman…” she was portraying some kind of stereotype? Wha? And the Sister Act movies were funny because she was a fish out of water, not because she was entertainin’ the folks with her funny negro singing thing. Puh-lease!
What was I kidding about? Oh, okay, so I was incorrect about the Old South bit. But hey, wasn’t the boycott a long time ago? 1954ish? Cmon, tlw, that’s old. And it’s in the South!
Corrina Corrina was a treacly movie in which despite Major Differences, we All Get Along. It took a very complex theme (racial disharmony) and solved it in about 90 minutes.*
*Okay, this happens 99% of all movies.