My profit has been wiped out by a £250,000 cost : EU s new export rules leave small British firms struggling
Jerry Lawson of Frogbike said administration fees charged by each government to his customers had forced him to pause selling into Denmark, Spain and Poland
He had to hire extra employees to cope with the added administrative burden
A survey of 210 manufacturers found over half faced increased costs
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Whether they were involved in Civil Rights, politics, science, technology, sports, or music, African-American history is full of innovators, though they don t always get their due. Here are 25 unheralded Black pioneers and trailblazers you should know.
1. JESSE L. BROWN
When Jesse LeRoy Brown was a teenager, he wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to express his disappointment that African Americans weren t flying in the military. While that changed in the Air Force in the early 40s with the Tuskegee Airmen, it would be Brown himself that would break that barrier for the Navy in 1947. By 1949 he was an officer, and in 1950, the United States was at war in Korea and he was in the action. Brown and his unit were soon airborne, completing dangerous mi
Dr. Mark Dean (Photo: University of Tennessee)
It s no secret that success for African Americans in tech has not come easily. As part of a cultural group that has been on the receiving end of discrimination, disenfranchisement, and blatant terror extending back hundreds of years, Black engineers and tech executives often feel like they must perform at twice the level just to break even with their non-minority counterparts.
Despite those immense challenges, a handful of Black professionals in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s broke through and succeeded at high-tech firms. Their faces might not be as prominent or well-known as those of white tech pioneers, but their contributions to the industry are no less important.
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