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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.
As director
Free Joan Little
American Coup: Wilmington 1898
The Cost of Inheritance
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
American Reckoning
How It Feels to Be Free
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
The Killing of Breonna Taylor
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas
Crooked Lines
The New Black
Promised Land
