Aj Tracey has launched a new college fund for Black students.
The 28-year-old rapper announced that he will be offering financial support for students wanting to go to Oxford University.
As per the announcement, Aj Tracey will be contributing £40,000 per year for three years to aid students in myriad ways, including with outreach, travel assistance and more.
The new fund has been developed with St Peter’s, a college recognised as one of the few Oxford colleges to have accepted Black undergraduates since its foundation in 1929.
“They [St Peter’s] specifically try to get people more of a mixed background, and they’re already working on that task,” the rapper, real name Ché Wolton Grant, said of the initiative. “So for me, it felt like a no-brainer, if the train is already up and running, to help it go.”
“I didn’t just walk in there and think, ‘Let me just randomly sling money at a random cause,...
The 28-year-old rapper announced that he will be offering financial support for students wanting to go to Oxford University.
As per the announcement, Aj Tracey will be contributing £40,000 per year for three years to aid students in myriad ways, including with outreach, travel assistance and more.
The new fund has been developed with St Peter’s, a college recognised as one of the few Oxford colleges to have accepted Black undergraduates since its foundation in 1929.
“They [St Peter’s] specifically try to get people more of a mixed background, and they’re already working on that task,” the rapper, real name Ché Wolton Grant, said of the initiative. “So for me, it felt like a no-brainer, if the train is already up and running, to help it go.”
“I didn’t just walk in there and think, ‘Let me just randomly sling money at a random cause,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Peony Hirwani
- The Independent - Music
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