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Fans are speaking up, and the hue and cry to get Raymond Parks in the NASCAR Hall of Fame is growing. Even better news? We're not going to run out of worthy inductees for years.

Dec. 1, 1963: In mid-November, NHRA Top Fuel's Antron Brown made history by becoming the first black driver to win a major auto racing title. And this day 49 years ago brought another breakthrough for minorities in motorsports, as Wendell Scott --...

NASCAR has added five diverse candidates to the nominees of the 2013 NASCAR Hall of Fame class.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame nominating committee got it right Wednesday by making Wendell Scott one of five first-time nominees for the class of 2013. But what about the other four?

Wendell Scott wasn't just any NASCAR driver, he was a black NASCAR driver when segregation was still the rule of the lands he raced in. His journey, to be told in an ESPN special on Sunday, is an emotional one.

In its first year in Sin City, NASCAR's Championship Week is receiving rave reviews. Now only if they'd let the public into the awards ceremony, then we'd have something.

Blog | Conversation | December 04, 2009

As December 1 comes and goes it's time for us all to remember the color-barrier breaking racer Wendell Scott.

Blog | Conversation | December 02, 2009

A rough welcome to Bristol Motor Speedway left 18-year-old Marc Davis short of his goal of a top-20 finish Saturday in his debut as the first African-American owner-driver in a major NASCAR race since Wendell Scott retired in 1973. But, considering ...

Wendell Scott crossed the color barrier in NASCAR in 1961. Now 47 years later, there are still hurdles on the way to NASCAR's stated goal of diversifying the sport, writes Ed Hinton.

The only black driver to win at NASCAR's highest level never got a proper celebration.