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.

Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory ...

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 ...

The American Dream isn’t for everyone in Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ In Colson Whitehead's new novel, "The Nickel Boys," Elwood Curtis dreams of going to college. He's a smart kid ...

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.

Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory ...

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 ...

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 ...