inner city
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Another $2,000 is listed for Cornerstone Schools that year “to assist the inner city schools in Uganda,” which is what Cornerstone Schools does in Detroit and Cornerstone Development does not do in Uganda’s inner-city schools.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Maverick Carter, a longtime friend and business partner of both James and Schottenstein who runs an entertainment company, describes meeting Schottenstein as “a young African-American kid from the inner city of Akron, Ohio.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Williams, who has a 3.8 grade point average and plans to graduate in December, said he hopes to be part of the start of a rebirth in championing players from the inner city.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2025
Formerly the site of a burial ground and then Lang Park sports stadium, named after a particularly fiery Presbyterian minister from Greenock in Renfrewshire, the Suncorp stands on some interesting terrain in the inner city.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2025
“I know that so many young men living in the inner city feel deprived of the better things in life,” my dad was saying.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
