As a Black female voice in media, Ananda Lewis’s impact broke many invisible barriers, challenging stereotypes and paving the way for the generation that followed.

Cover of "VJ" by Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn with Gavin Edwards Atria/Simon and Schuster "This is it. Welcome to MTV -- music television, the world's first 24-hour ...

Goodman was a radio DJ before he got the gig as an MTV VJ. After he quit in August 1987, he continued to work in the music industry, going back to being a DJ at KROQ, VH1 Classic and more.

Sara Sidner and Stephanie Elam — honored the late MTV VJ during a special segment on CNN. Elam shared her longtime friend's final text message to her in an emotional moment.

In VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave (Atria Books, out today), the four living original VJs — Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter and Mark Goodman — reveal the truth: ...

In "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave" the music channel's original hosts dish about the net's early years in their own words.

Ananda Lewis, a TV personality and former MTV VJ and host on "Total Request Live," has died at the age of 52. Lewis suffered from breast cancer and did not have a double mastectomy as was suggested.

Alan Hunter, a former MTV VJ and SiriusXM host, has found a new home in St. Louis, where he enjoys the city's music scene and is perfectly happy to live there for a long time.

Dave Holmes is an editor-at-large for Esquire and was a VJ on MTV from 1998 to 2002. More to Read . Before social media, Barbara Walters said ‘Tell Me Everything.’ And many did.

The former MTV VJ revealed she was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer back in 2020 in an Instagram post, saying that she’d refused mammograms for years because she feared radiation exposure.