The talented journalist possessed an alchemy of striking, undeniable beauty and a fierce, disarming intelligence. Sarasvati Ananda Lewis, a pioneering broadcast journalist and television host, whose ...

If you’re a woman feeling alone on her journey with breast cancer, Sara Sidner wants you to know that you’re not alone. On Friday, World Mental Health Day, in a video posted to her Instagram, the ...

Sep. 5, 2025 – 14:05 – As we continue to mourn the loss of Ananda Lewis, journalist Sarah Sidner—who considered Lewis a close friend—opened up to us about the toll of that grief, especially while ...

Hip hop icon Busta Rhymes is the inaugural winner of the MTV VMA Rock the Bells Visionary Award. During the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, the rapper hit the stage at UBS Arena in Elmont, New ...

Busta Rhymes took the stage at the MTV VMAs on Sunday to accept the inaugural Rock the Bells Visionary Award and memorialized Ananda Lewis— despite the awards ceremony surprisingly paying the late TV ...

Earlier this summer the Hip-Hop world mourned the loss of popular MTV VJ Ananda Lewis. Alhough many Gen Zers aren’t familiar with the name, Millennials remember her fondly, and Busta Rhymes made sure ...

The MTV Video Music Awards became a stage for remembrance Sunday night as Busta Rhymes transformed his historic win into a heartfelt homage to Ananda Lewis. The veteran rapper, finally claiming his ...

Fans who grew up watching Ananda Lewis on MTV and BET are still mourning her untimely passing at age 52. But her loss is felt even more deeply by the family she left behind, including her son Langston ...

President Donald Trump has “something to crow about,” CNN anchor Sara Sidner declared after seeing the jobs report for June. CNN senior reporter Matt Egan joined Sidner on Thursday to break down the ...

When the news broke of the passing of journalist, VJ, television personality, actor and activist Ananda Lewis, something shifted for me. Ananda was someone I admired deeply; we were colleagues in the ...

I was born in 1997, which means I came of age during the golden hour of glossy magazines and cable television. I flipped through Vibe, ESSENCE, and Ebony like they were scripture, but when I turned on ...

She was the queen of MTV in the 1990s, a star VJ who rubbed shoulders with scene-makers like Prince, Shaquille O’Neal, and tap-dancing sensation Savion Glover. At her peak, she was so popular — and ...