March 2007
Three Continents One History Project is being run by the Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre, a community organisation based in Winson Green, Birmingham. The project brings together two major services of the centre:
Using primary and secondary research we will hold workshops, presentations and debates and produce a documentary series on New Style Radio 98.7fm. New Style Radio will also be holding several simultaneous broadcasts with other radio stations across the globe. Later in the year we hope to produce a documentary film.
The project runs for over a year and was launched officially at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery on March 25th 2007. It ends with a national conference at Birmingham Town Hall in March 2008.
The project will inform all sections of society about one of the bleakest chapters in the history of humankind. It will explore the Caribbean experience of slavery as well as analyze the socio-economic links and legacies of the transatlantic era.
The project will re-stitch the threads that have connected Birmingham with global patterns of international trade, criss-crossing three continents. It illuminates the shared history of Birmingham, Africa and the Caribbean
The Three Continents One History project was launched on 25th March 2007 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The day marked our commemoration of the millions that were killed and enslaved. It is fitting that it began the start of our journey to uncover the role that Birmingham played in this.
Speakers, artists and listeners from across the world joined with us to remember and to take part in re-stitching the threads that connected Birmingham, Africa and the Caribbean 200 years ago.
Archive News
Barriers to Training and Employment – FFRU has recently completed its contract for Job Centre Plus: Barriers to Training and Employment for Young African Caribbean Men as They Perceive Them. The research took place across North West Birmingham and will be available shortly in the documents section
FFRU in Nottingham – Sarabjeet Soar and Guy Collier are working for ACE Consortium in the Radford and Hyson Green New Deal for Communities area, evaluating their Black Business Collaboration project.
FFRU in Sandwell – Dr. Clive Harris and Guy Collier are currently researching issues of young people and social cohesion for Race Equality Sandwell. The report will be available in July in the documents section
European Visit – The Research Unit was able to develop its European links further with the visit of Gary Titley MEP (Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party) and Neena Gill MEP to the Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre.
