Younger generations of black activists say they prefer the pointed, more forceful King to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning pacifist who preached love over hate. (Associated Press)PHILADELPHIA — For Abdul Aliy-Muhammad, the Martin Luther King Jr. he learned about as a child was a man of love, peace and racial harmony, a gifted orator. “There is a Martin Luther King that is important to the resistance movement that we don’t hear about,” said the 33-year-old co-founder of the Black and Brown Workers Collective in Philadelphia. Today’s young activists say King’s harsher words resonate just as much as his methods of peaceful protest. “It was never simply that.”As Carruthers sees it, “agitation” was the core of King’s work.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2017 13:35 UTC