Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
My People by Langston Hughes
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
If Kids Ran The World by Leo and Diane Dillon
Rain School by James Rumford
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya by
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters by President Barak Obama
Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant
Mimi's Tutu by Tynia Thomassie
Magic Trash by J. H. Shapiro
Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Beautiful Moon by Tayna Bolden
Hope for Haiti by Jessee Watson
Juliana's Bananas by Ruth Walton
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