Nickel is a chamber of horrors for the black teenagers sentenced there. Those who break the rules are beaten in an outbuilding called the White House or else mysteriously disappear.

Boys endured beatings at a notorious structure known as "The White House." And in recent years, those boys — now men — have banded together to form a group they call the White House Boys ...

You might have heard that Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, takes a bold and highly unusual approach to translating its source material to the screen.

The boys were trouble even as corpses because, in Whitehead’s reimagining, the Nickel Academy had been closed after many decades and developers had plans for an office park on part of the land.

In Whitehead's novel, The Dozier School is renamed "The Nickel Academy" and it's at this house of horrors that his main character, an African American teenager named Elwood Curtis, winds up.

Ad Policy (Courtesy of Orion Pictures). Nickel Academy, a reform school for troubled Florida boys, is not a place of learning—it’s a prison camp. The wards perform manual labor for no pay, can ...

Nickel Boys (now streaming on MGM+) is a tough but essential watch. The story of two Black teenage boys interned in a brutal reform school in Jim Crow-era 1960s Florida, the film is director ...

The boys were trouble even as corpses because, in Whitehead’s reimagining, the Nickel School had been closed after many decades and developers had plans for an office park on part of the land.

Colson Whitehead on "The Nickel Boys" 07:37 When we caught up with acclaimed author Colson Whitehead, he was buried behind a mountain of his own making: copies of his latest novel, "The Nickel ...

The boys were trouble even as corpses because, in Whitehead's reimagining, the Nickel Academy had been closed after many decades and developers had plans for an office park on part of the land.