When Vaudeville singer, dancer, and actress Florence Mills died in New York in 1927, at age 31, nearly 10,000 fans flocked to the funeral home to pay their respects. Soon, both Duke Ellington and Fats Waller dedicated songs to her; and in South Central Los Angeles, the 1912 Globe Theater, in the city’s then-vibrant jazz district, was renamed in her honor. Yet, decades later, the theater languished as a burnt-out shell, and the collective memory of Mills was virtually lost. But now, on that site, the legacy of this legendary Black performer, whose parents had been enslaved, is reemerging in larger-than-life ways.