… the UMOJA coordinator to develop leadership skills, scholarship support, experience cultural events and activities while being a part of an empowering community centered on the 18 Umoja principles and practices. Principles and Practices Raising … language as power, curiosity, playfulness and agency replace what might have been standoffishness and uncertainty. Tapping African American Intellectual, Spiritual, and Artistic Voices: Informed by their distinct history, African Americans … artists and spiritual leaders. Umoja sees individuals like Phyllis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Robert Johnson, W.E.B. Dubois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Alan Locke, Thelonious Monk, Malcolm X, Romaire …