Betty Davis: She's Gotta Have It
James Maycock, MOJO, February 2005
ONE EVENING during the high summer of 1967, the fragrant Miss Mabry left her Greenwich Village apartment situated in the S&M area of Bedford Street. Within a few minutes, this bright-eyed scenester and long-legged Afro-American beauty was strutting down Bleecker Street, stopping the traffic as usual.
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