“Our Kind of People” is one step closer to the small screen. Fox Entertainment is opening a writers room for the drama based on Lawrence Otis Graham’s nonfiction book “Our Kind Of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.” The hope is that the project will receive “a straight-to-series order for the 2021-22 season,” Deadline explains.

Penned by Karin Gist, “Our Kind of People tells the story of Angela Vaughn, a single mom “who risks it all and moves her family to Martha’s Vineyard with hopes of taking her natural hair care line to the next level by infiltrating the African American elite in Oak Bluffs. But she soon discovers a secret about her past that just might change her position and shake up her life and this influential community forever,” the source hints.

Gist, who most recently served as the showrunner on Season 1 of ABC’s “Mixed-ish,” is among the project’s exec producers.

“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Revenge,” and “Girlfriends” are among Gist’s other credits.

In 2018, Gist was asked how the industry has changed since she started working in it nearly two decades prior. “Definitely more doors are open now but there’s still a struggle,” she told Shadow and Act. “[Black women] still have to fight to be heard and to get our stories told in a way that feels more complex and less one note. Of course, times are changing, but things still need to change. I’m a believer in moving forward for myself but also trying to open the door for other women after me so that when you ask the same question in five years to someone that I consider a baby writer right now, she’ll hopefully have a different answer.”