Black youth in America must overcome many systematic obstacles to function successfully in American society. Racist social views and racist structures significantly impact Black youth's access to equitable education and resources and lead to disparate educational outcomes. One intervention that may help protect school age Black youth from the impact of racism is racial affinity groups. Racial affinity groups are successful spaces for discussing concepts unique to a group's shared experiences. An 8-session racial affinity group with fourteen Black second-grade participants was the pilot intervention used in this study. A mixed-method research design was used to evaluate this intervention. The dependent variables included self-esteem, self-efficacy, and school belonging. Student questionnaires, parent and teacher focus groups provided data which was assessed to determine the intervention's impact. The quantitative data illustrated modest and inconclusive results. Self-esteem was the dependent variable most positively impacted by the intervention, as evidenced by the quantitative data collected from students and the qualitative data collected from parents and teachers. Qualitative findings suggest that Black parents believe racial affinity groups at this age level are essential for Black youth. Teachers discussed students' excitement in participating in the group and the improvement in some students' self-esteem. Future evaluation in this area is imperative. Recommendations for future studies are to increase the length of the intervention, improve communication between teachers and the researcher between group sessions, provide student participants with semi-structured interviews, increase generalizability, and evaluate additional domains such as racial identity and social development. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]