According to a number of reports, the National Civil Rights Museum is having a "crisis" of sorts around a very rarely discussed topic: Board Composition.

The National Civil Rights Museum, in Memphis, is the location where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated.  The Museum has a board, of 32 members: 12 who are representatives of large corporations.  15 members are black, 15 white, and 2 are Hispanic.

A founder describes the board as to be "representative of a cross-section of the community".  Benjamin Hooks, former head of the NAACP says the corporate folks help raise significant amounts of money and also help with matters "involving bringing the best business practices in from the corporate world to the nonprofit world".

D'Army Bailey, a black Tennessee judge who was also a founder, says that "the board should more nearly approximate the soldiers of the civil rights movement that it celebrates".

I am confident it's not just white folks who have access to corporate money and business practices.  I am also confident that there are white folks who served as soldiers of the civil rights movement.  I am also clear that the white folks have not experienced the civil rights issues certainly, at minimum, in the way black folks have (and continue to).

Defining mission and "ownership" is certainly part of the steps to resolve this conflict.  Of course, with this type of situation, we have to first define who gets to do the resolve.