Yoruba Richen

Known for DirectingBorn 1972-01-01 (age 54)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.Read more

Movies & web series

American Reckoning

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The New York Times Presents

High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

The Fall of Diddy

American Experience

The Killing of Breonna Taylor

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas

Black and Missing

The New Black

Out in the Night

And She Could Be Next

Dykes, Camera, Action!

Free Joan Little

American Coup: Wilmington 1898

The Cost of Inheritance

Storming Caesars Palace

The Recall: Reframed

How It Feels to Be Free

Crooked Lines

Promised Land