Imani: Faith -To believe with all our hearts in our God, our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory…

Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful…

Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional…

Ujamaa: Cooperative Economics – To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together This is this…

Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility – To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and to…

Kujichagulia: Self Determination – To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. My daughter has an unusual name. It is…

Umoja: Unity – To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race 75 years ago, during the great Negro…