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Ron Draney said
Earliest "extended" usage (beyond the original DWI) I can think of is ZZ Top's 1976 song Arrested for Driving While Blind, from the album Tejas.

That's not really "extended" usage.  The lyrics indicate that you're not slightly intoxicated but blind drunk:

When you're driving down the highway at night
And you're feelin' that wild turkey's bite
Don't give Johnny Walker a ride
Cause Jack Black is right by your side
You might get taken to the jailhouse and find
You've been arrested for driving while blind

In that case, a DUI isn't just hustified, it's extremely justified, and ZZTop wouldn't argue that.

Gpogle booksd shows Driving While Black - a reference to unlawful and unjust policing - as early as 1984's Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma By Charles Eric Lincoln.  Flying While Arab has a lot of 2002 cites.

So much for "recent".  By my calendar, I'd say it is.  As for "novelty" versus "standard", I'd point out that the word novel means new, and everything that isd standard was once new.  If racial profiling on an organizational level were to end tomorrow, it would persist on a personal level forever.  We make assumptions about everyone we meet as part of our brain's IFF (Identification Friend/Foe) system. 

Unless it is displaced by another expression that encapsulates police treatment of blacks - and it's hard to replace a clever phrase - I suspect the DWB phease (and its derivatives) to be around a long time.