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- ↑ Staff, AFRO (October 8, 2011). "Journalist, Jazz Man, Biddy Wood Quietly Passes Away".
- ↑ Staff, AFRO (October 8, 2011). "Journalist, Jazz Man, Biddy Wood Quietly Passes Away".
- ↑ Kelly, "James 'Biddy' Wood" (obituary with photo), The Baltimore Sun, October 12, 2011, p. 6.