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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Christi Carras

Travis Scott launches safety initiative after Astroworld tragedy: ‘I need to step up’

Travis Scott has launched an initiative centering on event safety after 10 people were killed at the rapper’s Astroworld music festival in Houston last year.

On Tuesday, the “Sicko Mode” hit-maker unveiled Project Heal, a multipronged campaign encompassing an HBCU scholarship fund, a creative design education program, mental health resources and a coalition working to make live events, such as Astroworld, safer for attendees.

“I’ve been taking the time and space to grieve, reflect and do my part to heal my community,” Scott — whose legal name is Jacques Berman Webster II — wrote on Instagram.

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