"It was so frustrating not to have an outlet": Post-"Tell Me More," Michel Martin talks Ferguson

Just weeks after the last episode of NPR's "Tell Me More" — Michel Martin's groundbreaking, seven-year radio program about race and gender issues — St. Louis Public Radio asked her to come down to Ferguson to facilitate a discussion with the grieving community. But I mean, one of the things I’m interesting in “exploring,” because I can’t think of a better word, is: What does it mean to get people out? People would say to me all the time, “I didn’t even know I was interested in that.” You know, or, “I’m hearing people that I don’t get to meet in my real life, I don’t have any access to this.” So one of the things that I’m wondering that we can accomplish with this series is: What if you could actually bring the community together? So it wasn’t like we were trooping off but I have this distinct memory … it was just kind of that’s "New York." But just like you said in the beginning of our conversation, we were always really careful about it, because we didn’t want to have something in people’s faces that wasn’t accessible to them.