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Beats by Dre is lending its support to NASCAR’s only black driver.  The Apple subsidiary is announcing a new deal with Bubba Wallace, saying it had planned to make the deal public later this week.  However, the group shared the news after President Trump targeted the driver on social media earlier on Monday.  In defense […]

NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace is not ruling out fans protesting the circuit’s ban of the Confederate flag. Its only full-time black driver said fans have the right to peacefully protest after NASCAR banned the emblem two weeks ago. He also related the situation to social justice demonstrations over the last month after George Floyd’s death and […]

INDIANAPOLIS—Kevin Harvick won the Brickyard 400 for the second time, beating Joey Logano by 6.118 seconds in a crash-marred race that ended Jimmie Johnson’s perfect playoff run. Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman claimed the final two spots in the 16-driver field while Johnson was eliminated for the first time. Daniel Suarez finished 17th at Indianapolis […]

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is gearing up for another big race weekend as NASCAR comes to town for the Brickyard 400. New this year, qualifying and the race will both be held on Sunday. Qualifying will begin at 10:35 a.m. before the green flag flies at 2:25 p.m. IMS president Doug Boles took […]

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com News & Sports Today is the start of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. First Lady Michelle Obama, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren are set to speak today.  The event has gotten underway with a bit of scandal…an ousting. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned as chairwoman of the Democratic […]

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com News & Sports Indianapolis Metro Police have been extremely busy at the close of this work week. IMPD officers were called to a home on the city’s northeast side Friday morning to secure it. Once there, the made a grizzly discovery. Just after 7 a.m., according to WTHR-TV, police found two bodies inside that home, located […]

Kim’s Monday News & Sports News and Headlines Jurors this week are expected to hear the last witnesses in the trial of Mark Leonard.  He’s accused of devising the insurance fraud scheme that caused an explosion three years ago in the Richmond Hill neighborhood on Indy’s southside.  It damaged or destroyed 80 homes and killed […]

Today, nearly 25 years after his passing, Wendell Scott, the first African-American driver to secure a victory at NASCAR’s top level, continues to make history.…

Richie Parker is a 30-year-old man who was born without arms. While many of us were born with all of our limbs, we’ve let other…

  When I first heard about Darrell Wallace Jr. being the first Black man in fifty years to win a NASCAR series race, my first…

African American NASCAR driver Darrell Wallace Jr. became the second black driver to win a national NASCAR competition when he took the cup at the…

Tia Norfleet is the first and only black woman racecar driver to be licensed by NASCAR. The Suffolk, Virginia native actually began driving at age 4 when she spotted the keys in the ignition of her parent’s minivan. Her inner-driver made its first debut all the way through the front porch of their home. Three […]