This edition: Can Documentary Films Help Achieve Social Justice?
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Original tape date: December 8, 2025. First aired: January 13, 2026.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 first woman in US history to be acquitted of murder on grounds of self-defense to sexual violence.
Guest List
Yoruba Richen Director & Producer “Free Joan Little” Associate Professor & Director Documentary Film Program, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY
- Can Documentary Films Help Achieve Social Justice?
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- Can Documentary Films Help Achieve Social Justice?
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