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For decades, Katie D&;Angelo and Valerie Harrison engaged in conversations about race and racism. However, when Katie and her husband, who are white, adopted Gabriel, a biracial child, Katie&;s conversations with Val, who is black, were no longer theoretical and academic. The stakes grew from the two friends trying to understand each other&;s perspectives to a mother navigating, with input from her friend, how to equip a child with the tools that will best serve him as he grows up in a white family. Through lively and intimate back-and-forth exchanges, the authors share information, research, and resources that orient parents and other community members to the ways race and racism will affect a black child&;s life&;and despite that, how to raise and nurture healthy and happy children.