Monique Mills (U Houston) and I organized a colloquium for the 2024 meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Houston. We were joined by Amy Lerman(The Parish School) and Jeannette Alarcón and Eunjeong Lee (U Houston) in our discussion of Supporting Black Children’s Language, Literacy, and Joy: Creating Space for Researcher-Practitioner Dialogue.