Forest Theater construction begins Wednesday and is expected to be completed by December 2025.
DALLAS — The last 20 years chained up is certainly no testament to what has gone down at theIf the walls could talk, they would describe the lights greeting actor Sidney Poitier, the walls echoing each Jimmy Hendrix strum, and the stage gripping the call and response from blues legend, B.B. King.
If the walls could talk, they’d tell how desegregation saved it. The once-segregated theater did not fully open its doors to Blacks until the 1950’s construction of the S.M. Wright Freeway. That demolished more than a thousand homes leading to white flight. It is a moment etched in memories.
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