OWN has released the trailer for Season 5 of Ava DuVernay’s drama series Queen Sugar, which sees the Bordelon family and the community of St. Josephine come face-to-face with the Covid-19 pandemic. When production on Queen Sugar was forced to shut down in spring of 2020 due to the novel coronavirus, DuVernay chose to revamp the entire series storyline to address the pandemic — as well as this past summer’s worldwide protests for racial justice that were sparked by the police killing of George Floyd. Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) continues her dispute with the Landry family as she attempts to use the system of local government to protect the community and the farmers who own land. Simultaneously, she tries to preserve ties with her son Micah (Nicholas Ashe) as he navigates his freshman year at Xavier University, an HBCU, and participates in the on-campus activism there.