Yoruba Richen
Directing
Biography
Yoruba Richen (born 1972) is a film director, screenwriter and producer. She produced and directed The New Black (2013), which won the audience award at AFI Docs, Frameline Film Festival and Philly Q Fest. It also won best documentary at Urbanworld Film Festival. The New Black was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. She is director of the documentary program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
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American Experience
1988
The New York Times Presents
2020
The Fall of Diddy
2025
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021
Crooked Lines
2018
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
Black and Missing
2021
American Reckoning
2022
Out in the Night
2014
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019
Free Joan Little
2025
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022
And She Could Be Next
2020
The Recall: Reframed
2022
Storming Caesars Palace
2022
The New Black
2013
The Cost of Inheritance
2023
Promised Land
2009
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020