Oscar-nominated actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor considers Mississippi ... the school profited off the labor of those kids for years, Ellis-Taylor said. “Nickel Boys,” she said, puts the ...

Young man. Do — Do you know a student named Elwood Curtis?” Hattie, who’s played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, is visiting her grandson, Elwood, who is played by Ethan Herisse at Nickel Academy, ...

By Brande Victorian Behind every great man, as the old, outdated expression goes, there’s a great woman — and there’s a pretty decent chance she’s been played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor stars as Hattie in director RaMell ... to bring stories of schools like this to light and keep people from ever treating kids with such brutality in the future.