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.

Filmography of Yoruba Richen

• The Fall of Diddy (2025)
• American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024)
• The Cost of Inheritance (2023)
• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2022)
• American Reckoning (2022)
• How It Feels to Be Free (2021)
• High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2021)
• Black and Missing (2021)
• The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020)
• The Killing of Breonna Taylor (2020)
• The New York Times Presents (2020)
• The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019)
• American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas (2019)
• Crooked Lines (2018)
• The New Black (2013)
• American Experience (1988)