'Auto Trends' Talks To An HBCU Alum About How The Family Tobacco Farm From The 1800s Laid The Path To Become The Only Top-Tier Black Female Auto Supplier

Lisa Lunsford, CEO of GS3, is the only Black female top-tier auto supplier. (Photo Credit: Lisa Lunsford)

Lisa Lunsford, the CEO and co-founder of the Detroit-based auto manufacturer, Global Strategic Supply Solutions, talks to Auto Trends with JeffCars.com, the only syndicated multicultural automotive radio program in North America.

At the time of our conversation four years ago, Lunsford was one of two Black women in the automotive manufacturing industry who headed a Tier One company. A Tier One business supplies the parts to build cars directly to a major automaker. To put this in perspective, the average car consist of 30,000 to 90,000 of parts. Today we believe she is the only Black women in this role.

 

'Auto Trends' Women's History Month Spotlight: African American Travel And The Road To Civil Rights (Two Shows)

 

As we kickoff Women's History Month, Auto Trends with JeffCars.com, the only syndicated multicultural automotive program in North America, is reaching into our archives re-airing a 2020 conversation centered around cars, travel, Civil Rights and American history. In light of the current state of the world, it seems fitting that we revisit history, seeing the climate the Black community encountered before gaining many of the civil liberties most of us have taken for granted. 

In an exclusive two-part conversation with Auto Trends with JeffCars.com, curator, documentarian, professor and author Dr. Gretchen Sorin literally take us on a historical road trip, exploring the popular acronym DWB beyond the lens of racial profiling. In her book, Driving While Black: African American Travel And The Road To Civil Rights, the effervescent Sorin shares how the car, which has served as the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, played different roles for both the Black and white community.

SiriusXM's 'Auto Trends' Black History Spotlight: Designer Chris Benjamin Resurrects A Car Brand Birthed 65 Years Ago

Chief Design Officer Chris Benjamin is posing with one of the vehicles his team created. (Photo Credit: Scout Motors)

Chris Benjamin, a native New Yorker, has joined an exclusive club, becoming one of a handful of Black automotive designers in the world to head a design studio.

Like the elite club of the four Black quarterbacks who have led their teams to the finish line in the Super Bowl, Benjamin finds himself in a car club just as exclusive as the Black NFL winning Super Bowl quarterbacks.

CBS News Profiles Ed Welburn: GM's First Black Car Designer (Video)

 

'Auto Trends' Is Discussing PBS' 'Driving While Black' Special With The Filmmaker (Show 2 of 2)

To hear the one-on-one conversation with the filmmaker ..... listen to SiriusXM and/or several of our free FM online outlets, click here.

Show One Airs - Saturday, October 3 - Wednesday, October 7

Show Two Airs - Saturday, October 10 - Wednesday, October 14