By Brooklyn White ·Updated February 9, 2022
Betty Davis was the evidence of cool hoped for and the proof of funk felt. The musician, who died on Wednesday at 77, was the subject of a 2017 documentary, “Betty: They Say I’m Different,” but her face rarely entered the camera’s frame. Most of all we see her hands—those hands, accented by periwinkle polish and turquoise rings, that grabbed the world by
