[1][2] Peoples was raised on the south side of Fort Worth in what she referred to as "Black Texas".
[3] She attended the Sundance Creative Producing Summit and other writing workshops to continue to develop the screenplay.
[12] The movie stars Tonea Stewart and follows "a former musician whose son was killed by police and who can no longer find it in her to sing.
"[13] She was inspired to write Doretha's Blues in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death, as she was interested in the lives of the family left behind.
[14] Peoples is married to producer Neil Creque Williams, whom she met in her graduate program at USC.