The NAACP has issued a travel advisory for a US state, a first in the civil rights group's history.
The Missouri NAACP first circulated the advisory against travel to the state in June, and the national organization has now voted to adopt it, McClatchy reports. The advisory comes after racist incidents including racial slurs against black students at the University of Missouri and painted on a barbershop's windows, as well as the death of Tory Sanders, a Tennessee man who ended up in Missouri when he made a wrong turn on a road trip, ran out of gas, and ultimately ended up dying in a jail cell in the state.