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On Monday night, Seventh and T streets NW will fill the familiar bustle of concertgoers queueing up for a show. They'll field through a glamorous marble lobby, perhaps pause at a long, illuminated bar and wait excitedly for the velvet curtains to part on a perfomance by breakout Washington rapper Wale. But it won't be lost on anyone what they're also here for: to see the Howard Theatre, once the nucleus of Washington's Black Broadway, shine again.

It took only three decades.

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