- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1972
- Place of Birth
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Free Joan Little
movieFree Joan Little
2025 · Director
tvThe Fall of Diddy
2025 · Director
movieAmerican Coup: Wilmington 1898
2024 · Director, Producer, Writer
movieThe Cost of Inheritance
2023 · Director, Producer
movieThe Recall: Reframed
2022 · Producer
movieStorming Caesars Palace
2022 · Consulting Producer
movieThe Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
2022 · Director, Executive Producer
movieAmerican Reckoning
2022 · Director, Writer, Producer
tvBlack and Missing
2021 · Director
tvHigh on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021 · Director
movieHow It Feels to Be Free
2021 · Director
movieThe Killing of Breonna Taylor
2020 · Producer, Director
tvThe New York Times Presents
2020 · Director, Producer
movieAnd She Could Be Next
2020 · Field Director
movieThe Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
2020 · Director
movieAmerican Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
2019 · Director
movieThe Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
movieCrooked Lines
2018 · Director, Producer
movieDykes, Camera, Action!
2018 · Self
movieOut in the Night
2014 · Producer
movieThe New Black
2013 · Director, Producer, Writer
Promised Land
moviePromised Land
2009 · Director
tvAmerican Experience
1988 · Producer, Writer, Director