Trust black women with Kendrick Sampson & Monica Simpson | Unhinged & Immoral EP 60
Unhinged & Immoral
Jamila Bell, Mecca Evans | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.9 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
amila and Mecca sit down with activist and actor Kendrick Sampson and Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong, for a powerful conversation about organizing, reproductive justice, and why movements must learn to trust Black women’s leadership.
From the history of Black women leading social justice movements to the role men must play in supporting that leadership, this episode explores accountability, community care, and what real solidarity actually looks like. Kendrick reflects on his journey from Hollywood to activism, while Monica breaks down the true meaning of reproductive justice and why community organizing in the South remains so critical today.
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| 0:00.0 | And that's what we need. |
| 0:01.5 | We do. |
| 0:02.0 | Okay? |
| 0:03.0 | And we also have here Kendrick Samson. Well, well, well, y'all may know him as Nathan. Yeah. Do people keep calling you Nathan in the streets? I don't know, I ignore it. I only hear Kendrick. Oh, okay, come on now. Of course. Yes, also in How to Get Away with Murder, the Vampire Diaries, All American, and also an activist in them streets. |
| 0:23.4 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 0:24.0 | Be in the streets. Mm-hmm. Well, well, with the big dog over here, you know what I'm saying? Executive and the Rapper. Yes, yes. Well, welcome to Unhinged and Amoral. you know, we are going to be talking about some serious things. |
| 0:56.0 | We have our serious faces on today, guys. It's going to get political. Okay. Because everything is political. Everything is political. But it is unhinged and moral. Okay. So we're going to also cut up. Let's do it. A little bit. As we naturally do. Okay. Let's get straight into it. I'm very curious to know how both of you got into advocacy and activism work. Yeah. I'm sorry? Yeah. Okay. You would have been bald, so you start. |
| 1:04.6 | Inspire me. I grew up in a very small rural town in North Carolina, like one of those one stoplight |
| 1:11.3 | towns. |
| 1:12.3 | It's called Windgate, North Carolina, and nobody knows where it's from. |
| 1:14.8 | But in this town, and because of where it was situated in the world, like the building |
| 1:20.3 | that was like one of the biggest buildings in our city was the Jesse Helms welcome |
| 1:25.0 | center. |
| 1:26.0 | And so those who don't know, Jesse Helms was a very racist, not great individual. |
| 1:31.1 | And so I grew up with that as my backdrop. |
| 1:33.3 | And I grew up in a place that was very black and white. |
| 1:36.4 | I grew up in a single parent home. |
| 1:38.1 | And so the experiences I had in my community, |
| 1:40.0 | I was having so many questions, like, |
| 1:42.0 | why are the police always over here? |
| 1:45.5 | Why is it that, |
| 1:50.3 | you know, we can't get access to the things that we need in this community? And I didn't have language around like the economic justice of a thing or criminal, you know, justice or abolition. Like, |
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