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Maryland rapper IDK will teach a tuition-free music business seminar for BIPOC students this August.
Applications for IDKâs No Label Academy went live in June. No musical or business experience is required, and accepted students will be housed on Harvardâs campus for the duration of the course, which starts on Aug. 21.
IDK said that his 10-day seminar is targeting BIPOC individuals interested in pursuing careers in the music industry.
âThis [course] is predominantly for people that wouldn t have gone to Harvard, per se,â the rapper said. âItâs for people who think that the idea of Harvard is impossible, just doing anything there and being on that campus is an attraction in itself.â
With inspirations ranging from Earl Sweatshirt to Pablo Picassoâs âBlue Period,â Chicago rapper D2x is ready to have the world appreciate his art.
The rapperâs debut album âThe Color Blueâ is his most intimate work to date, channeling a diverse array of artistic influences and personal memories.
âI feel like I m fully comfortable now to honestly just tell the true story of how I got into music and where I m trying to go,â he said on a call with The Crimson.
Before discovering music as a freshman in college, D2x was a high school basketball player with dreams of going pro, turning down a number of scholarship offers to attend Division I Western Illinois University as a hopeful walk-on.
A new affordable housing proposal has ignited debate over the role of single-family homes in Cambridge.
Titled the âMissing Middle Housing Petition,â the proposal is sponsored by the affordable housing nonprofit A Better Cambridge and the Boston Sunrise Movement, and calls for zoning changes to allow for the construction of more multi-family âmiddle housing,â or four-plexes, triple-deckers, and townhouses. Over the last week, the petition has been met with mixed responses from City Councilors and residents.
At an April 8 Ordinance Committee meeting, the City Council voted to keep the petition in committee pending further review and feedback from the Community Development Department, the cityâs planning agency.
Cambridge Chief Public Health Officer Claude Jacob said local vaccination efforts remain hampered by supply shortages, despite federally run sites having recently received more doses.
Jacob presented the update during the weekly Covid-19 pandemic response at a meeting of the city council Monday.
The state has recently increased supply to mass vaccination sites, such as the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, in order to bolster rollout, according to Jacob.
“The vaccine supply coming into the Commonwealth continues to increase, with much of the additional supply going to federally run programs at the area pharmacies and the FEMA program that’s anchored at the Hynes Convention Center,” Jacob said.