Here are the biggest differences between the "Nickel Boys" book and film: How Elwood hears speeches from Martin Luther King, Jr. Brandon Wilson, left, and Ethan Herisse co-star in the film ...

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 ...

These are words from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and they serve as an inspirational catalyst for Colson Whitehead’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys.” The book ...

Five and a half minutes into Nickel Boys, young Elwood stops to watch Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “How Long, Not Long” speech. It is broadcast on a stack of televisions in a storefront ...

Elwood, an idealist deeply inspired by the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., believes he can get ... streetwise Turner has his doubts. Nickel Boys is the first narrative feature written ...

A boy named Elwood studies his reflection ... electronic shop whose TVs are broadcasting a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. The year is 1962, Jim Crow laws are still in full effect across the ...

This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New ... is when he receives the album "Martin Luther King at Zion Hill" for Christmas in 1962 ...