Based on a true story, the drama follows two young Black men who befriend one another inside a segregated reform school.

It’s a motion picture that hits close to home. A story about two African American boys who were sent to an abusive reform school in Florida during the Jim Crow era.

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset A popular TV host ...