Much has been made of the film's first-person POV. But let's not overlook the dazzling, emotional and now Oscar-nominated ...

The lives of James Hanover Thompson and David "Fuzzy" Simpson were forever changed, destroying their childhood innocence.

Florida’s dark history of abuse, neglect and systemic cruelty is not solely a Black narrative. It is a human tragedy. While “Nickel Boys” captures the unique horrors endured by African American youth ...

The RaMell Ross directorial film ‘Nickel Boys’ is a profound dive into the lives of two young men and their friendship forged in the most troubling fires. Set in the ’60s, during the Jim Crow era, the ...

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What is Nickel Boys about? Nickel Boys is a 2024 American historical drama film that focuses on Elwood Curtis after he is unjustly sent to an abusive reform school, Nickel Academy, in Florida.

penned the novel after coming across the news about The Florida School for Boys in 2014. The real-life school—better known as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, or just the Dozier School—opened in ...

When Colson Whitehead published his 2019 novel “The Nickel Boys,” it was met with great critical acclaim and received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was inspired by the closing of the ...

The so-called “reform school” is based on the actual Dozier School for Boys in Tallahassee where the remains of almost a hundred children and teens have been discovered. The film starts out with ...

It’s a Monday at 9 a.m., and it’s safe to say that most boys in America are not rehearsing a German opera. But that’s exactly what’s happening at St. Paul’s Choir School in Cambridge. About 30 fidgety ...