RaMell Ross is the director of the movie. Whitehead’s book is inspired by the real-life abuse that took place at the Dozier School for Boys, a juvenile reform school in Marianna. Last year ...

A recent arrest has brought the Reading School District into the spotlight as a middle school employee has been accused of misconduct with a student. Stephanie Quintero-Ochoa, 19, was taken into ...

a reform school in Florida modeled on the Dozier School for Boys, which severely abused its young charges, most of whom were boys of color. One of the striking aspects of “Nickel Boys” is the ...

Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, between 1940 and 1975. Soon, that money will be dispersed among hundreds of elderly survivors. Divided among them, the financial compensation is modest ...

Dozier School for Boys. Soon, tens of thousands of dollars will go to hundreds of now elderly survivors. Divided among them, the financial compensation is modest. However, the significance of this ...

Ray Watford spent more than a year at Florida's Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in the 1960s, where boys who were often guilty of no more than truancy were ...

A movie based on north Florida's shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has received two Oscar nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards. The film, "Nickel Boys," is an adaptation of a Pulitzer ...

Despite being adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” feels entirely fresh. The story follows a young man named Elwood who is unjustly ...