# Yoruba Richen
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yoruba richen (born 1972, in New York City, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.. Her work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op Doc, Frontline Digital, New York Magazine’s website -The Cut, The Atlantic and Field of Vision. Her film The Green Book: Guide to Freedom was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel to record audiences and was awarded the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking.
Special Episode: Free Joan Little
As It Happens host Nil Köksal speaks with Yoruba Richen about her new documentary about the life of Joan Little, an unlikely civil rights figure who became the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted of murder on the basis that she was defending herself from sexual assault.
Can Documentary Films Help Achieve Social Justice? | Yoruba Richen
Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, the founding director of the documentary film program at the Craig Newmark graduate school of journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY). She tells Jim of her latest project, a blockbuster film called "Free Joan Little," about the f…
Season 12 Episode 8: Black History Month 2026 The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
They told you Rosa Parks was just tired.They lied.
This Black History Month 2026, Good Wine & Great Laughs by Casanova uncorks the truth behind The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks — the groundbreaking documentary streaming on Peacock that reclaims the radical legacy of Rosa Parks.
Season 12, Epi…
The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 2
This episode contains strong language.
“So there’s just shooting, like we’re both on the ground,” Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, said of the raid on her home. “I don’t know where these shots are coming from, and I’m scared.”
Much of what happened on the night the police killed Ms. Tay…
The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Part 1
At the beginning of 2020, Breonna Taylor posted on social media that it was going to be her year. She was planning a family with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker; she had a new job and a new car. She had also blocked Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug dealer with whom she had been romantically involved…
Talking Comedy And Tragedy With Ferne Pearlstein And Bob Edwards
I thought about doing this episode very soon after starting this podcast. Ferne Pearlstein and Bob Edwards made a documentary more than a decade ago called “The Last Laugh” which talked about how comedy can tackle a tragedy as immense as the Holocaust and what lessons that might suggest for effecti…
FREE JOAN LITTLE: Yoruba Richen on Joan Little, Rosa Parks & America’s Forgotten History
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen joins Omelas to discuss her newest film, FREE JOAN LITTLE, and the extraordinary story behind one of the most significant criminal trials of the 1970s.
Joan Little was a young Black woman incarcerated in North Carolina who was charged with murder a…
123: Yoruba Richen on Breonna Taylor & Harry Belafonte
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Free Joan Little: “When you put people in cages and dehumanize them and lock them away from society...I don’t know what else you’re gonna get”
In this vHopeful Conversation, I speak with Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Yoruba Richen about her powerful documentary short, Free Joan Little, and the extraordinary movement that rallied around a young Black woman’s right to defend herself against sexual violence. We explore how Yoruba’s work on…
Free Joan Little | Storytelling & the Power of Resistance An Interview With Yoruba Richen
How do you tell a story that helped build a movement while honoring the woman at its center?
Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Yoruba Richen joins hosts Julien Serrano-O’Neil and Zachary Heneden to discuss FREE JOAN LITTLE, her short documentary revisiting a landmark 1975 case and the coalition that …
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