Many students arrive on college campuses from racially homogeneous environments and are ill-prepared to engage in cross-racial discussions (Patton, 2016), therefore, making it more difficult to develop the skills needed to create authentic relationships across racial lines (Park & Chang, 2015). Because these cross-racial relationships are critical to students' post-college political and civic behaviors, for this research-in-brief, the authors explored the cross-racial contacts occurring organically in Black college students' relationships with white peers during the contentious 2016 election cycle. The study employs the integrative model of racial-ethnic identity enactment (Cross et al., 2017) to answer the following research questions: (1) How did Black college students at one historically white, metropolitan university make meaning of racially and politically driven assaults? and (2) How did they negotiate intergroup contacts during the 2016 election and inauguration cycle?