{"id":8179,"date":"2018-02-04T02:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2018-02-10T02:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T02:34:30","slug":"8179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/04\/8179\/","title":{"rendered":"MinnPost features \u201cAfrican-Americans and the Commonwealth of Freedom\u201d by Augsburg&#8217;s Harry Boyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8181\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/02\/Frances-Harper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/02\/Frances-Harper-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Frances Harper\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/02\/Frances-Harper-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/02\/Frances-Harper-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/02\/Frances-Harper.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Harper by Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a recent MinnPost article, Harry Boyte\u00a0said that commonwealth was a way for\u00a0ordinary citizens to develop authority for their claims to equality. The commonwealth vision of civic construction made possible the creation of churches, schools and colleges, women\u2019s organizations like the Council of Negro Women and labor groups like the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Boyte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a time of eroding faith in democracy and looming threats to the commons, from schools, colleges, and libraries to water resources, coastal areas, and public parks, remembering the commonwealth and the tasks of civic repair can generate the hope we need,&#8221; said Boyte, in the article. &#8220;The commonwealth vision makes democracy a way of life, not simply a trip to the ballot box, and puts citizens back in as its agents and architects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyte is a Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy at the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg University. He is the architect of the center\u2019s public work approach to civic engagement and democracy, and the creator of Public Achievement.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, he worked for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a field secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the Civil Rights Movement,\u00a0where he\u00a0learned about the commonwealth and the claims from civic construction.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/community-voices\/2018\/01\/african-americans-and-commonwealth-freedom\">MinnPost website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent MinnPost article, Harry Boyte\u00a0said that commonwealth was a way for\u00a0ordinary citizens to develop authority for their claims to equality. The commonwealth vision of civic construction made possible the creation of churches, schools and colleges, women\u2019s organizations like the Council of Negro Women and labor groups like the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8185,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}