Black Educated & Broke

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

What a life…..to the family, keeps fighting.



Mother Viola Fletcher 🕊️

11/17/2025

The lasted on Civil Rights Icon and Black America Champion the Rev Jesse Jackson.

10/14/2025

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Soul Singer D’Angelo has passed away at 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer.

09/11/2025

What September 10th means to the culture.

08/06/2025

08/02/2025

07/21/2025

This is heartbreaking…..💔

And sometimes, it is okay to say this is not fair. The Creator knows and understands.
Gone too soon.

07/07/2025

There is always a shock when we lose black musical icons, legends, superstars or rising stars. Gospel music pioneers our musical influence in the world long before HipHop & Today’s RnB.
pays tribute to these 2 gospel music icons. Mississippi Mass Choir leader “Mama” Mosie Burks who recently turned 92 & the Choirmaster, just short of her 95th birthday, last living founding member of the Historic Chicago Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Dr. Lou Della Evans-Reid (Mama Lou) have both died. Historic legacies they leave in our culture.

06/27/2025

Walter Scott, who with his twin brother Wallace “Scotty” founded the legendary R&B group The Whispers, has died at the age of 81, family and friends confirmed.

06/18/2025

06/12/2025

Ananda Lewis Dead at 52: Former BET, Talk Show Host, MTV VJ

News and entertainment news sites are reporting the death of Ananda Lewis, after losing her nearly seven-year battle with breast cancer, at the age of 52.
The former MTV VJ passed away Wednesday, June 11, according to a Facebook post made by her sister Lakshmi Emory.
Lakshmi shared a black and white portrait of Ananda with the caption: 'She's free, and in His heavenly arms. Lord, rest her
soul 🙏🏾

Ananda Lewis, the trailblazing television host, model, and fierce advocate for youth, died on June 11, 2025, at the age of 52 after a courageous battle with metastatic breast cancer.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in San Diego, Ananda found her early calling in advocacy—volunteering even as a teen. She graduated cm laude from Howard University in 1995 and soon became the charismatic voice of BET’s Teen Summit, where she discussed pressing issues affecting young Black Americans and memorable interviewes with figures like First Lady Hillary Clinton.

Her magnetic presence caught MTV’s eye in 1997. Lewis went on to become one of the network’s most beloved VJs, anchoring shows like Total Request Live and Hot Zone, earning the New York Times christening her “the hip‑hop generation’s reigning It Girl” in 1999

After leaving MTV in 2001, she rode the wave again as host of The Ananda Lewis Show, a short-lived but incisively personal syndicated talk show, followed by roles on The Insider, Celebrity Mole: Yucatán, America’s Top Dog, and TLC’s While You Were Out. Beyond the screen, she constructed spaces as a skilled carpenter and contractor.

Ananda’s life took a sobering turn in 2020, when she revealed a stage III breast cancer diagnosis, citing her fear of mammograms as a painful lesson in early detection.

By late 2024, the cancer had metastasized to stage IV. In an emotional reflection, she acknowledged that her pursuit of alternative treatments—a decision she later regretted.

May Her Memory be a Blessing.

https://www.bet.com/article/kmmipy/ananda-lewis-former-teen-summit-host-dies-at-52