SF museum showcases ‘Tenderloin Blackness’ at monthly evening art Walk

During this week’s First Thursday Art Walk in San Francisco’s Tenderloin Museum, neighbors and guests celebrated “Tenderloin Blackness,” an upbeat exhibition about the notable personalities who made the area a hub for Black people.  

“People think of the Tenderloin as a place where only the homeless, drug addicted, and drug dealers live. We wanted to show this was a place of dignity for its Black residents,” said Del Seymour, the show’s organizer, aka “Mayor of the Tenderloin,” and founder of Code Tenderloin, which teaches job skills to homeless, drug-addicted and low-income residents of the area.