Disarray at Center for Dr. King Casts Pall on Family and Legacy - New York Times

Disarray at Center for Dr. King Casts Pall on Family and Legacy - New York Times:

Here's a man for which we have a national holiday proclaimed and his family is at odds about what to do with the Martin Luther King Jr. center in Atlanta. Seems to me that it's headed to bankruptcy unless someone steps up to exert some discipline and vision for King's legacy. If the sons and possibly others are reaping 'six figure salaries,' I wonder what they do to earn these riches("Public attention focused on the aging King Center almost a year ago, when The Atlanta Journal Constitution began a series of investigative articles about its finances. The articles revealed that the King Center needed repairs and ended most years with a deficit, yet paid Dexter King almost $180,000 and Martin King $150,000 in salaries and had given millions to a for-profit company run by Dexter King.")? And some in the family don't even know who's on the board that's supposed to oversee this center?

This is a very sad state of affairs but it reflects the disharmony that seems to reign in the black community lately. It's a real shame that this mess is allowed to go on. Where is the leadership in the black American community?


"Acknowledging that the board, which until recently had been made up almost entirely of family members, had been 'remiss' in its oversight and programming, Mr. King said the solution was to strengthen and diversify the board. Bernice King said government ownership would result in a loss of ideological independence.

None of the four King children responded to requests for interviews. And the center did not answer repeated requests for information. In a brief phone conversation, a center spokesman said he could not provide a list of the board members because he did not know who they were."