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It will be a virtual tribute to Martin Luther King next Monday

By | January 11, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the Lynn Community Minority Cultural Center to revamp its annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast and tribute. (AP)
LYNN — The continuing coronavirus crisis that has swept the country will force the Lynn Community Minority Cultural Center to alter the way it celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. For the past 34 years, the CMCC has sponsored a breakfast celebration of the legacy of the late civil rights leader, who was…
Steve Krause
Steve Krause Steve Krause is the Item’s writer-at-large. He joined paper in 1979 as a copy editor and later created a music column, called Midnight Ramblings, which ran through 1985. After leaving the paper for a year, he returned in 1988 as a reporter and editor in sports. He became sports editor in 1998; and was named writer-at-large in 2018.

Krause won awards for writing in 1985 from United Press International; in 2001 from the Associated Press; and again in 2020 from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. He is a member of the Harry Agganis Foundation Hall of Fame, a past winner of the Moynihan Lumber Scholar-Athlete Community Service Award, and was the 2012 recipient of the Jack Grinold Media Award for MasterSports, an organization that conducts high school and college coaches’ clinics. He lives in Lynn, is active on Facebook, and can be found on Twitter @itemkrause.

Steve Krause can be reached at skrause@itemlive.com

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