Retina Wesley Tapped as Lead in OWN "Queen Sugar" Series.

Great news for True Blood and OWN fans alike:

Today news hit that True Blood actress Rutina Wesley is set to lead the new Ava DuVernay helmed  Queen Sugar,".  Wesley will star as Nova Bordelon, a formidable journalist and activist based in New Orleans. Her life, and that of her brother and their extended family, undergoes significant change when her sister, Charley, returns to Louisiana from Los Angeles to help run the family sugarcane farm.

Not only will Oprah Winfrey be excutive producing but she is poised to make recurring appearances as well. The series is based on Natalie Baszile's acclaimed novel Queen Sugar. DuVernay developed "Queen Sugar" for television, wrote its pilot episode and will direct multiple episodes of the show's first season.

Check out the author reading an excerpt from the novel as well as a video from the author herself:

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