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By Alfred Edmond, Jr. | Published August 8, 2010 | Full size is 500 × 320 pixels

On the April 1995 cover, BLACK ENTERPRISE cited the appointment of Robert Holland, a corporate executive and turnaround artist, as CEO of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. as another corporate milestone: the first African American recruited to run a majority-owned franchisor. He said of his ascent: “Twenty years from now, nobody’s going to know Bob Holland, Dick Parsons or Ken Chenault . There’ll be 20 black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, half of them or more women. So this is just a passing point in time.”

On the April 1995 cover, BLACK ENTERPRISE cited the appointment of Robert Holland, a corporate…