Known For
Directing
Known Credits
2
Gender
Female
Birthday
January 1, 1972 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
| 2025 | Free Joan Little...Director | |
| 2025 | The Fall of Diddy...Director | |
| 2024 | American Coup: Wilmington 1898...Director | |
| 2023 | The Cost of Inheritance...Director | |
| 2022 | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks...Director | |
| 2022 | American Reckoning...Director | |
| 2021 | Black and Missing...Director | |
| 2021 | High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America...Director | |
| 2021 | How It Feels to Be Free...Director | |
| 2020 | The Killing of Breonna Taylor...Director | |
| 2020 | The New York Times Presents...Director | |
| 2020 | And She Could Be Next...Field Director | |
| 2020 | The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show...Director | |
| 2019 | American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas...Director | |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom...Director | |
| 2018 | Crooked Lines...Director | |
| 2013 | The New Black...Director | |
| 2009 | Promised Land...Director | |
| 1988 | American Experience...Director |
| 2024 | American Coup: Wilmington 1898...Producer | |
| 2023 | The Cost of Inheritance...Producer | |
| 2022 | The Recall: Reframed...Producer | |
| 2022 | Storming Caesars Palace...Consulting Producer | |
| 2022 | The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks...Executive Producer | |
| 2022 | American Reckoning...Producer | |
| 2020 | The Killing of Breonna Taylor...Producer | |
| 2020 | The New York Times Presents...Producer | |
| 2018 | Crooked Lines...Producer | |
| 2014 | Out in the Night...Producer | |
| 2013 | The New Black...Producer | |
| 1988 | American Experience...Producer |
| 2024 | American Coup: Wilmington 1898...Writer | |
| 2022 | American Reckoning...Writer | |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom...Writer | |
| 2013 | The New Black...Writer | |
| 1988 | American Experience...Writer |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedomas Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2018 | Dykes, Camera, Action!as Self |
