This is the real story behind the Oscar-nominated film Nickel Boys, a film inspired by a novel rooted in pain, horror and ...

Dozier went by several different names in its history. It was the Florida State Reform School when it first opened in 1900. A second campus opened five decades later. By then it was the Florida ...

Children at the 1619 Freedom School learned possibilities are endless for them while speaking with an Oscar-nominated film director.

Through immersive filming techniques, it also sheds light on the horrors that occurred at the Dozier School for Boys—a real-life reform school in Florida—while highlighting the resilience of the human ...

The film is based on the atrocities that went on at the Dozier School for Boys in Florida ... was only 13 when he said his mother sent him to the reform school. Trauma from the abuses he endured ...

The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, once the largest juvenile reform institution in the country, operated in Florida for 111 years. During that time, it became infamous for its horrific abuses ...

I was at Dozier in 1967-68 during segregation and after integration for over a year. I experienced firsthand the conditions of this so-called reform school, and I know its horrors were not simply ...

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform school, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida, at which more than ...