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 ...
Community leaders in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are calling for action regarding the number of missing Black boys in the area. Last week, the Brampton Black Empowerment Unit hosted a town hall ...
A 15-year-old white boy has pleaded guilty to trying to drown a black teen in a Cape Cod pond while spewing racial slurs — as a pal laughed and called the victim “George Floyd” because he ...
Despite these challenges, Mizell said, Black boys in Milwaukee have a purpose and all have the potential to become great leaders and community members. The key is having them believe in themselves ...
Vivek Ramaswamy was pushed down the stairs in his early school by a 'big Black boy' following which his school was changed. In his book, he did not recount the incident kindly and identified ...
This is a place where only the white boys get to play football, while the black boys are whipped savagely (to the brink of death or beyond) as a matter of routine. Mesmerising, unfamiliar ...
Nickel Boys, the lucid new feature from director RaMell Ross, changes perspective and upends convention. The heart of the movie is Elwood Curtis, an academically gifted Black teenager in early ...
At the notorious state-run Nickel Academy, white boys live in one set of conditions, while the Black boys endure another. The segregation is nothing new. But the degree of the brutality ...
A story that explores the tensions between Black wealth and heritage, The Piano Lesson centers on a prized family heirloom that’s tearing two siblings apart. Boy Willie (Washington) wants to ...
A Black father is outraged after Ohio cops pulled ... and searching through the pockets of his 5-year-old son while the boy’s hands were raised. Parma police said they were only doing it for ...
Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...
Nickel Boys is the first narrative feature written and directed by RaMell Ross, who previously made Hale County This Morning, This Evening, a lyrical documentary about Black life in Alabama.