This Book Review Forum represents a joint effort between Berkeley Black Geographies, based in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley and facilitated by Jovan Scott Lewis, and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) Black Geographies Lab, based in the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and cofacilitated by Camilla Hawthorne. Both research centers are spaces of transdisciplinary and transnational inquiry working at the intersection of Black studies and critical human geography. In January 2025, we held a public book celebration at UC Santa Cruz (generously supported by UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies and Science & Justice Research Center) for The Black Geographic, during which graduate students from Berkeley Black Geographies and the UC Santa Cruz Black Geographies Lab were invited to share their reflections on the edited volume—and on the state of the field of Black geographies more broadly.