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

The Nickel Boys dramatises the real-life history of a segregated reform school in the segregated Jim Crow South: a front for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

"Nickel Boys" is one of the films that may win this year's Best Picture award at Hollywood's biggest night on Sunday. However, to St. Petersburg resident Charles Robert Lynn, it's no movie. It was his ...

But when Elwood’s turn comes, the vision cuts away to still images: black-and-white photographs showing the faces of actual Dozier ... of having a school supposed to “reform” juvenile ...

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 ...

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 story follows two Black boys, Elwood and Turner, who become friends after being sent to a reform school. They face brutal abuse by the wardens at a school modeled on the Dozier School in ...