Nov. 20--Chicago businessman Robert Blackwell is taking over as interim president and CEO at the DuSable Museum of African American History, but he intends to be an "activist" in the role, he said.
Blackwell's appointment to replace, temporarily, retiring president and CEO Carol Adams will be announced on Monday, museum officials said.
But Blackwell, 77, said he expects it may take up to a year to find the next CEO and he intends to use his time well, he said.
"When I took this job I took it on the basis that I wasn't going to sit there and watch the clock, right, that I was going to do the job," said Blackwell, a member of the museum's board and the founder of Blackwell Consulting Services, a technology consulting firm.
He said his priorities are to get the museum's collections fully documented as a step toward earning national accreditation and to raise money for the Roundhouse expansion project in a building across the street from the museum's current location.
