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“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. “We always hear about love and forgiveness. … There was also a King who was radical.”Younger black activists say they prefer the pointed, more forceful King to the Nobel Prize-winning pacifist who preached love over hate as he led nonviolent marches across the segregated South. They like the fact that the urgency in King’s demand for equality in the years just before his assassination in 1968 is in keeping with the tenacious nature of today’s Black Lives Matter rallying cry.