I was wracking my brain (which really only takes a small rake LOL) to remember what movie the creepy African-American doll reminded me of…

I finally got it – Tales From the Hood 1995
(a composite of several stories, similar to Tales From the Crypt)

From imdb:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114609/

“In the third story, “KKK Comeuppance”, a former Ku Klux Klansman-turned-politician moves into a mansion that was once the sight of a horrible slave massacre that occurred around the end of the Civil War. There is a lot of distrust towards him, because of his shady history. He is told by many of the protesters that a bunch of voodoo dolls, which are inhabited by the souls of the murdered slaves, are still on the mansion grounds. The politician shrugs all of this off as just local superstition, until his assistant (who might I add is black) dies mysteriously. Soon it becomes clear that the politician is not alone in his brand new house.”