The Voice of Southwest Louisiana August 2019 Issue

Jacqueline White, MBA is the Co-
Owner of African American Art & More,
a lifestyle gift boutique founded in
1989 by her mother Eresterine P. Guidry.
African American Art & More is in Four
Seasons Town Center. Lady Jackie is the
ONLY African American retailer in the
WORLD with the following brands in a
gift store: John Wind, Lenny & Eva, Tyler
Candle Co., Spartina 449, Bella Ryann and
Gingersnaps to name a few.
In 2007, she was the FIRST retailer in the
state of NC to bring ‘ALL’ the major natural
hair product brands into one retail
location.
Jackie is passionate about encouraging
shoppers to ‘buy local and shop small,’
a phrase well known to residence of
Southwest LA. She is even more driven
to get consumers to understand the
importance of supporting minority
owned businesses. Her group the
"GreensboroBLACK Cash Mob Crew/
We buy Black Triad" is an actual group
that she created on Facebook and it has
almost 15,000 members (of all races) to
date.
Lady Jackie and her group members
find local minority owned businesses
and share them within the confines of
the group as well as on the public page
GreensboroBLACK.
Lady Jackie is the founder of UNPLUG
Greensboro which is her initiative to get
more local people to shop locally with
brick and mortar retailers instead of
Online so that dollars can stay in the Triad
longer.
She understands, ‘to whom much is given
much is require.’
Lady Jackie leads a group of fellow
entrepreneurs in an Online social media
group; giving them FREE tips on how
to move their businesses forward, and
teaches them how to be a sustainable
force in business with an emphasis on
strategy, marketing, financial, product
development, and offering excellence in
customer service.
August 2017, Lady Jackie was awarded
the National Honor of the “40 under 40”
Award by the Gift & Stationery Magazine
for being a trend-setter in those
industries!
October 2017, Lady Jackie was
recognized by Greensboro News &
Record as a Greensboro Rising Star
Finalist for becoming a rising young
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