Screening: American Coup by Yoruba Richen

LitFest is proud to present a screening of Yoruba Richen's film American Coup as an encore to Saturday's screening of The Cost of Inheritance. American Coup examines the WIlmington Massacre and Coup d'Etat of 1898, a bloody event in North Carolina that uncannily echoes Tulsa's own trouble past with racialized violence.

This event is free to the public.

Yoruba Richen is a Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker who was awarded the Trailblazer award by Black Public Media. Her work has been featured on multiple outlets, including Netflix, MSNBC, Peacock and FX/Hulu. Her film, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a Gracie Award and was honored by the Television Academy. Other recent work include the Emmy-nominated films , How It Feels to Be Free; The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show and Green Book: Guide to Freedom. Her film, The Killing of Breonna Taylor won an NAACP Image Award. Her films The New Black and Promised Land won multiple festival awards before airing on PBS's Independent Lens and P.O.V. Yoruba’s other work include directing an episode of the award-winning series Black and Missing for HBO and High on the Hog for Netflix. She most recently directed The Fall of Diddy for ID and HBO Max. Yoruba is a recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker’s Award and is the Founding Director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

The screening of American Coup is presented in partnership with LitFest, Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Dreamland Tulsa, with support from Justice for Greenwood and Tulsa Film Collective.

Read more about the Tulsa Artist Fellowship here.

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