By Robert Daniels By bending time and leaning on nonlinear storytelling, “Nickel Boys” joins a recent trend of contemporary Black filmmakers relinquishing the impulse to frame Black stories ...

From its humble beginnings with 15 artists in 2019, Love’s initiatives – Black Boy Art Show and Black Girl Art Show – have blossomed into a nationwide movement, touching thousands of lives ...

“Nickel Boys” is a stunning, distinctively conceived cinematic masterwork from director RaMell Ross that tells the story of a pair of Black teenage boys who are trapped in a notorious Florida ...

In the 2017-18 school year, the most recent data available, Black boys were suspended and expelled from public preschools at a rate of more than three times their total enrollment; white and ...

Among 28 states that captured on-time high school graduation rates in 2021, 89.1 percent of girls graduated in four years, compared to 82.9 percent of boys. Available data show that Black boys ...

Hundreds of Black men who say they were physically or ... 1960s are applying for restitution from the state. Five-hundred boys were placed at what is now referred to as the Dozier School for ...

In America, boys looking to celebrate their entry into ... renditions of pop songs and a group of high school freshmen in black tailcoat tuxedos to perform a dance. This may sound like a classic ...

Since 2019, girls’ test scores have dropped sharply, often to the lowest point in decades. Boys’ scores have also fallen during that time, but the decline among girls has been more severe.

There, white boys are allowed to play American football while the black boys work the land and face severe beatings for disobedience (in a rare exception to the first-person perspective, the camera ...

The film is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel of the same name, which follows two Black boys at an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. We've included some highlights below ...

Suddenly, an innocent mistake lands Elwood at the notorious Nickel Academy, a violent reform school where Black boys like him are met with very different treatment than their white counterparts.

A hunt for a gang of men 'clad in all black' is underway after they stabbed a 17-year-old boy to death outside a bus station. Teenager Thomas Taylor had been walking along Greenhill Street in ...