Yoruba Richen

filmmaker

Yoruba Richen appears in the following:

Rosa Parks' Lifelong Activism

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

People know about Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience and her refusal to sit in the back of the bus, but a new documentary examines her lifelong activism.

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'How It Feels To Be Free'

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Director Yoruba Richen joins us to discuss her new documentary for PBS American Masters titled,  "How It Feels To Be Free."

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The Real Green Book

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Yoruba Richen on "The Green Book: Guide To Freedom."

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'The New Black': Same-Sex Marriage and the African-American Community

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Supreme Court will soon issue its decisions in the two same-sex marriage cases the Justices heard this term, but same-sex marriage has long divided the African-American community,...

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Promised Land in South Africa

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Yoruba Richen, director of “Promised Land,” talks about her film, an inside look at land reform and racial reconciliation in the new South Africa. It follows the Mekgareng, an impoverished tribe removed from their land 40 years ago that petitioned the government in 1998 to reclaim the land, now owned by white farmers and developers. It also looks at the firestorm ignited in 2006 when the South African government forced a white farmer to give his land back to the descendants of the black owners were removed from it in the 1940s.

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