Queen Sugar Recap: Of Their Sojourn Here

Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 2 / OWN Nova is happy to be home from her trip to NYC and visit to St. Jo when she sits down to take a look at the most recent issue of her newspaper. It’s pretty clear she’s not the reporter who covered the protest at the Collings – St. Jo basketball game; in fact, the article talks about the Black students “causing trouble,” which we know wasn’t her take. Aunt Vi stops by the grocery store where she’s been selling her pies, and the manager lets her know that they flew off the shelves during the holidays. In fact, he wants more–double the order–and is promising more promotion for her, including a prized display in the store. She thinks about it for a second–this is going to be a lot of work, and the lupus is taking its toll–but she tells him he has a deal.

What Do You Have to Give Up? Remy is at the High Yellow Diner sitting with some older farmers who’ve come for a buffet Charley is hosting as a thank you for everyone’s who’s stuck by Queen Sugar. They’re talking about the protest, and while the other men are bothered by what the kids did, Remy argues that times are dangerous, and they need to pay attention to what’s going on–police brutality–and not look away. Charley walks in with Ralph Angel and thanks everyone for their commitment to the mill despite the hardships they faced last season, which was of course the Landrys intimidating everyone, threatening to terminate their leases. She also promises a lock on their rates grinding wit…