Tenderloin Blackness is an exhibition organized by Del Seymour--with Shavonne Allen, the Tenderloin Museum, and others–that highlights the Black community: people who are proud to be Black and proud of the Tenderloin. Guided by Seymour & his decades long relationship with the TL, this celebratory and dynamic project witnesses and elevates the Black community in the Tenderloin–a community that is as significant and essential to the neighborhood as its individual members are varied in lived experience and social role. In Seymour’s words Tenderloin Blackness “encourages people to feel proud to be in this neighborhood, and to say we've been here, we're here, and we're going to be here.”