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Can Documentary Films Help Achieve Social Justice? | Conversations with Jim Zirin

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. Follow CUNY TV: Facebook:   / cunytv   Twitter:   / cunytv   Instagram:   / cuny.tv   YouTube:    / @cunytv   LinkedIn:   / cunytv   Find more from CUNY TV at https://tv.cuny.edu Recording Date: 12/08/2025 First Air Date: 1/15/2026 Guest: Yoruba Richen, Director & Producer “Free Joan Little” Associate Professor & Director Documentary Film Program, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military. The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau. Watch more Conversations with Jim Zirin at http://tv.cuny.edu/show/conversations... Subscribe to the CUNY TV channel: https://bit.ly/2GmGb13 Subscribe to the Series Playlist: https://bit.ly/2RJKqKy CNJZ09005