Yoruba Richen

Biography

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.

Directed

1. The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019) — Director
2. American Experience (1988) — Director
3. The Fall of Diddy (2025) — Director
4. The New York Times Presents (2020) — Director
5. American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas (2019) — Director
6. The New Black (2013) — Director
7. High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2021) — Director
8. The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020) — Director
9. Black and Missing (2021) — Director
10. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2022) — Director
11. American Reckoning (2022) — Director
12. The Killing of Breonna Taylor (2020) — Director
13. The Cost of Inheritance (2023) — Director
14. Crooked Lines (2018) — Director
15. Promised Land (2009) — Director
16. How It Feels to Be Free (2021) — Director
17. American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024) — Director
18. Free Joan Little (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019) — Self - Narrator (voice)
2. Dykes, Camera, Action! (2018) — Self