… American Diasporas. The Umoja Community also seeks to educate the whole student–mind, body, and spirit using the vital power informed by an ethic of love. Umoja works to deliberately engage students as full participants in the construction of … in their lives. When our students experience language as power, curiosity, playfulness and agency replace what might have been standoffishness and uncertainty. Tapping African American Intellectual, Spiritual, and Artistic Voices: Informed … Ida B. Wells Barnett, Robert Johnson, W.E.B. Dubois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Alan Locke, Thelonious Monk, Malcolm X, Romaire Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes, Ra Un Nefer Amen, Cheikh Anta Diop, bell hooks, and many, many others as …