Yoruba Richen
View on IMDb ↗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.
Known for
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
Dykes, Camera, Action!Filmography (2)
Crew (21)
- 2025The Fall of DiddyDirector
- 2025Free Joan LittleDirector
- 2024American Coup: Wilmington 1898Writer
- 2023The Cost of InheritanceProducer
- 2022American ReckoningProducer
- 2022The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa ParksExecutive Producer
- 2022Storming Caesars PalaceConsulting Producer
- 2022The Recall: ReframedProducer
- 2021High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed AmericaDirector
- 2021Black and MissingDirector
- 2021How It Feels to Be FreeDirector
- 2020The New York Times PresentsProducer
- 2020The Killing of Breonna TaylorDirector
- 2020The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight ShowDirector
- 2020And She Could Be NextField Director
- 2019American Factory: A Conversation with the ObamasDirector
- 2018Crooked LinesProducer
- 2014Out in the NightProducer
- 2013The New BlackWriter
- 2009Promised LandDirector
- 1988American ExperienceDirector