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, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel it was based on, drew inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, which was shut down in 2011.

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

WATERLOO — Children at the 1619 Freedom School learned possibilities are endless for them while speaking with an Oscar-nominated film director. RaMell Ross, the director of “Nickel Boys ...

Several statues of young boys, black and white, standing lined up. People have left toys, flowers, and pretty rocks at the memorial. Several of the buildings, like the dormitories and churches, are ...

Today, The White House still stands on the former Dozier School for Boys campus. Next to it are several statues depicting what the boys experienced. A bed and paddle like the one that beat them, and a ...

NEW YORK – “Nickel Boys” is unlike any movie you’ll see this year. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the lyrical drama follows two Black teens in the 1960s ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — "Nickel Boys" is one of the films that may win this year's Best Picture award on Sunday at Hollywood's biggest night, the Oscars. However, to St. Petersburg resident ...

Oscars Oscar-nominated 'Nickel Boys' inspired by experiences from Florida reform school Some survivors will be compensated for the abuses they endured at the state-run reform school.

The story of the abuse and survival of the Dozier School for Boys. Advisory: Descriptions of Abuse ...

Still from the “Nickel Boys” movie, which follows two Black youth who survived abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. Photo provided by Amazon MGM Studios. “Nickel Boys,” ...