Yoruba Richen
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.
18 directing credits · 2 acting credits
Directing · 18
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
Black and Missing
2021
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020
Free Joan Little
2025
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024
The Cost of Inheritance
2023
American Reckoning
2022
The New Black
2013
Promised Land
2009
Crooked Lines
2018
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020
