Queen Sugar

Queen Sugar is an American drama television series created and executive produced by Ava DuVernay, with Oprah Winfrey serving as an executive producer. DuVernay also directs many episodes. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Natalie Baszile. The series airs on Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and premiered on September 6, 2016.The series follows the life of three siblings: two sisters, Nova Bordelon (played by Rutina Wesley), a formidable journalist and activist from New Orleans, and Charley Bordelon (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), a working wife and mother, who, with her teenaged son Micah, leaves her upscale home in Los Angeles and moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father – an 800-acre sugarcane farm; and their brother, Ralph Angel Bordelon (Kofi Siriboe), a single parent struggling with unemployment and raising his son alone after his father's death. Queen Sugar has been speculated to be the first television show to feature female directors for every episode of the series. Critics have highlighted that the show's predominantly Black cast does not preclude storylines that tackle universal issues like culture, class, and gender. The mainstream themes in the series often go hand in hand with episodes on racial profiling, the inheritance of chattel slavery, and other issues related to African Americans. In August 2018, OWN renewed the series for a fourth season.