Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys follows the studious and idealistic Elwood Curtis, a Black teenager whose prized possession is a recording of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.

A young dreamer named Elwood Curtis stares intently at his Black reflection in an electronics shop window as a row of small televisions broadcast Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech. Still living ...

We inhabit the perspective of 16-year-old Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), who is wrongfully sent to the Nickel Academy "reform" school, which Whitehead based on the Dozier School for Boys in Florida.

Nickel Boys, filmmaker RaMell Ross’s brilliant adaptation (with co-writer Joslyn Barnes) of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, is the story of Elwood Curtis, an African ...

His history teacher introduced him to the spirit and the hope of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And so with loving winds at his back, Elwood Curtis, a sweet young Black man from Tallahassee ...