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- ↑ ""Top Black Newspapers"". www.blacknews.com. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- ↑ Applebome, Peter; Times, Special To the New York (1986-03-23). "MURDERED COUPLE MOURNED BY DALLAS BLACKS (Published 1986)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-12-12.
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- ↑ "Dallas Examiner Publisher Mollie Belt to Receive NNPA Lifetime Achievement Award". The Washington Informer. 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- ↑ Belt, Mollie; Crowe, Larry F; Hickey, Matthew; HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (2016). The HistoryMakers video oral history with Mollie Belt. OCLC 994208954.
- ↑ Collins, Nathan; Farris, Gloria (2023-06-29). "Black-owned Dallas newspaper gets $170,000 from city for building renovations". KERA News. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
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