 In April 2013, New York University Press published Umoja's first single-authored book, which was titled "".A review in "The Clarion-Ledger" in 2015 described the book as following “confrontations in communities across the state through the end of the 1970s, demonstrating how black Mississippians were ultimately able to overcome intimidation by mainstream society, defeat legal segregation, and claim a measure of political control of their state.” He was honored for the book in 2014 in Oakland.Umoja has been a contributor to commercial and popular documentaries on black history.