#Yoruba Richen

Awards

NAACP Image Awards: “Insecure,” “Black and Missing,” and More

Issa Rae just landed another NAACP Image Award. The budding media mogul received the honor for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for “Insecure’s” series finale,...

Features

Pick of the Day: “Black and Missing”

Even if you don’t know the ins and outs of her story, you’ve probably, at one point or another, heard of Natalee Holloway. Have you heard of Tamika Huston, who went missing around the...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Activists Derrica and Natalie Wilson Are Dedicated to Finding “Black and Missing” Persons

“There are so many missing people of color in the U.S.,” we’re told in the trailer for the HBO docuseries “Black and Missing.” “African Americans remain missing...

Films

First Feature Doc About Rosa Parks in the Works from Directors Yoruba Richen & Johanna Hamilton

After several years of biopic talks, Rosa Parks is finally getting her own film. Yoruba Richen (“The Green Book: Guide to Freedom”) and Johanna Hamilton (“1971”) are directing...

Features

Pick of the Day: “How It Feels To Be Free”

Black women have been the backbone of social justice movements throughout history. PBS’ new “American Masters” entry, “How It Feels To Be Free” tells the story of six of...

News

Alicia Keys & Yoruba Richen Teaming Up for PBS Doc About Trailblazing Black Female Entertainers

Alicia Keys and Yoruba Richen are joining forces on “How It Feels To Be Free,” an “American Masters” documentary spotlighting six pioneering Black female entertainers. Richen...

News

Yoruba Richen Directing Breonna Taylor Doc for FX/Hulu’s Upcoming New York Times Series

Yoruba Richen will #SayHerName in an upcoming New York Times docuseries. The Hollywood Reporter confirms the “New Black” director is helming a doc about Breonna Taylor, the young Black...

Awards

Chicken & Egg Pictures Announces Recipients of Its Inaugural Breakthrough Filmmaker Award

Documentary filmmakers Kristi Jacobson, Julia Reichert, Yoruba Richen, Elaine McMillion and Michèle Stephenson have been named the five recipients of Chicken & Egg Pictures’...

News

Trailer Watch: The New Black – Directed by Yoruba Richen

In honor of a historic day in American history, we bring you the new trailer for Yoruba Richen’s documentary The New Black which just won the AFI Docs Film Festival Audience Award and...

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