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 recent weeks, a disturbing pattern has emerged in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA): a number of young Black boys have gone missing under unknown circumstances. As fear and uncertainty mount ...
Black boy participating in a robotics workshop. Bryan Johnson, the Founder of Black Boys Code, spent over 20 years working in corporate Canada, where he often found himself as “the only Black pe ...
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 ...
“Nickle Boys” is subtly complex. It is about racism, coming-of-age, a reclaiming of self, and a mystery about all the young Black boys who disappeared while attending Nickel Academy. At its ...
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 ...
Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), an honest, naïve teenager heading to college, is sent instead to Nickel for the crimes of being in the wrong place and being Black. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Hattie in ...
"Nickel Boys" takes on systemic racism ... justice advocacy as part of the Critics Choice 7th Annual Celebration of Black Cinema and Television. The event will stream on Starz in January.
Set during the Jim Crow era, we see the school’s divided living quarters, where the black boys are separated from the white, forced to wear tattier clothes and endure regular taunts and beatings ...
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 missing 7-year-old boy survived five days alone in an African game park, alongside elephants and lions, in what Zimbabwean politicians are calling "a true miracle." Tinotenda Pudu spent nearly a ...