Yoruba Richen
Directing
1972-01-01 · New York City, New York, USA
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 · Movie
The Fall of Diddy
2025 · Series
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024 · Movie
The Cost of Inheritance
2023 · Movie
The Recall: Reframed
2022 · Movie
Storming Caesars Palace
2022 · Movie
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022 · Movie
American Reckoning
2022 · Movie
Black and Missing
2021 · Series
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021 · Series
How It Feels to Be Free
2021 · Movie
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020 · Movie
The New York Times Presents
2020 · Series
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020 · Movie
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019 · Movie
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019 · Movie
Crooked Lines
2018 · Movie
Dykes, Camera, Action!
2018 · Movie
Out in the Night
2014 · Movie
The New Black
2013 · Movie
Promised Land
2009 · Movie
American Experience
1988 · Series