Barry Rand, Barrier-Breaking Chief Executive, Is Dead at 74

FILE -- President Barack Obama as Barry Rand, chief executive of AARP, introduces him to speak about health care reform legislation at the White House in Washington, June 22, 2009. Rand, who in 1999 became one of the few African-American chief executives of a Fortune 500 company when he took control of Avis, the rental car company, after being passed over for the top job at Xerox, died on Nov. 7, 2018, in an assisted-living facility in Norwalk, Conn. He was 74. (Brendan Smialowski/The New York Times)