Necessary Movement

What Cross especially likes about SBK's partnership with Kite's Nest is that it's a black-led organization collaborating with an organization run by three white women and operates like family. "They are serving as credible messengers for our organization to the larger white community, and that plays a role in building the trust. It's these ties that folks like Cross feel will help to close the social distance gap. He says, "Let's acknowledge first that racism exists, that the world did not change because Barack Obama became president, and that we need all hands on deck."