MTV’s Ananda Lewis Brought Journalism to a New Generation

MTV’s Ananda Lewis Brought Journalism to a New Generation

Through her work on the network’s show “TRL” and BET’s “Teen Summit,” she stirred a passion for current events among young audiences — which is sorely lacking today.

In memoriam: Ananda Lewis Remembered

Tributes have continued to pour in for Ananda Lewis, the former MTV VJ and host of BET’s Teen Summit, one day after her death at the age of 52. Donnie Simpson, the legendary BET host and radio DJ, shared his heartbreak. “I just found out that Ananda Lewis has died and I’m absolutely brokenhearted,” Simpson said. “She had tremendous success at MTV and with her own talk show, but she worked with us at BET before all that. She was only 52 and such …