Yoruba Richen

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Directing

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.

Filmography

• Free Joan Little (2025)
• American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024)
• The Cost of Inheritance (2023)
• The Recall: Reframed (2022)
• Storming Caesars Palace (2022)
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2022)
• American Reckoning (2022)
• How It Feels to Be Free (2021)
• The Killing of Breonna Taylor (2020)
• The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020)
• American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas (2019)
• The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019)
• Crooked Lines (2018)
• Dykes, Camera, Action! (2018)
• Out in the Night (2014)
• The New Black (2013)
• Promised Land (2009)