Queen Sugar is Ava DuVernay’s new television series on the OWN network. DuVernay, a fan of Ndegeocello’s critically acclaimed 2000 album, “Bitter,” approached her about working together, and the two came up with a sound for the show through a series of conversations about color.
Ndegeocello will play for four nights at the Blue Note — July 25 through July 28 — performing music from her latest album, Ventriloquism, as well as music from a collaborative project inspired by the writing of James Baldwin.
“It’s just a vehicle for people to come together and talk,” she said. “It just allows people to create space — not ranting and raving, but we can sit with each other and use ritual to deal with these questions and discomfort.”