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Xinhua News Agency / Contributor / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 5, 2024
Before there was Love Jones, there was Anthony and Isabella. And their story began more than 400 years ago, with a love that endured and prospered despite the odds.
Once upon a time during the early 1600s, Anthony and Isabella were a young African couple in love. “Anthony and Isabella were Angolan; they came from the Kimbundu-speaking,
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