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- Kim McLarin, "Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me", New York Times, September 3, 2006.
- Kim McLarin, Biog note, Washington Post, April 24, 2010. - ↑ Basic Black, WGBH.
- ↑ "An Interview with Kim McLarin". Literary Mama. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
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