Ava DuVernay revealed on Twitter today that Meshell Ndegecello is scoring her Queen Sugar television drama. The series is based on the novel by Natalie Baszile and the story of two sisters and their life on a sugarcane farm inherited from their father. Queen Sugar will air on Oprah’s OWN Network on September 6th. Ndegeocello’s most recent release is 2014’s Comet, Come To Me where she covered Whodini’s “Friends.”
