BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame purchased the vacant Lincoln Theater in 2010, and efforts to reopen the historic venue have been underway ever since.
On Thursday evening, for the first time in decades, patrons were welcomed inside the Lincoln Theater for a soft opening.
“I’m excited about it, because you know I grew up here. This is a place I actually watched movies,” U.S. Representative Cleo Fields said at the event…