Tyler Perry, Terri J. Vaughn sued for trademark infringement over new show ‘She The People’ 

When Tyler Perry’s new Netflix sequence, “She The Individuals,” hit the streamer in late March, it appeared like one other within the string of unending reveals and concepts that Perry has been in a position to develop and churn out. The sequence is about Antoinette Dunkerson (Vaughn) and her household’s humorous political journey as Dunkerson runs for and is elected because the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi.  

Properly, based on a lawsuit filed earlier than the sequence debuted on Netflix, a number of themes and concepts from the present, together with its very title, have been taken from a documentary sequence {that a} political motion group referred to as She The Individuals was creating with Vaughn. 

Aimee Allison, who’s the founding father of She The Individuals, is suing Tyler Perry, Terri J. Vaughn, Perry’s manufacturing firm, and a litany of different folks, claiming that the present “makes use of data from a documentary that was by no means completed and infringes on a nonprofit’s trademark.”

In accordance with Allison, in 2020, the group employed Nina Vacation Leisure Inc. to create a documentary in regards to the Mississippi group. On the time, they mentioned they spoke with Vaughn, believing that she was part of the manufacturing firm. Additional, Allison claims that they labored on the documentary’s themes, spoke with folks, and even supposed to name the documentary “She The Individuals.” 

She The Individuals is a bunch supposed to assist girls of colour who run for workplace or participate in different political pursuits. Allison’s swimsuit alleges that the Netflix present “echoes most of the identical themes relating to Black girls’s experiences in politics that Ms. Allison addresses by way of her activism.”

Allison additionally claims that Perry tried to trademark the identify “She The Individuals” in September 2024 however was denied the mark in April 2025. 

As of but, neither Perry nor Vaughn has publicly commented on or responded to the lawsuit.