What was once the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee, will soon be the site of a data center, thanks to a $1.5 million rural infrastructure grant just approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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 film, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel it was based on, drew inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for ...

The novel’s main setting is the Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school in mid-1960s Florida, based on the real-life ...

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 ...

Nickel Boys” presents a history detached from the popular understanding of American society while serving as a powerful ...

Rhode Island School of Design graduate RaMell Ross’ movie “Nickel Boys” has been nominated for two Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards. “Nickel Boys,” a story about two African American ...