Despite the colonizing dynamics of educational institutions and the extractive research paradigms of academia, we argue that family- and community-centered research partnerships can foster collective care, cross-racial solidarities, and more just educational ecosystems. Drawing from a long-term community research collaboration, the authors (a university professor and community-based organizational leader) offer three grounded examples of our efforts to live cross-racial solidarities and realize healing and transformation with parent leaders and educators in perilous times.