Last week, the journalist, TV host, and carpenter Ananda Lewis passed away at 52. The Howard graduate and two-time NAACP Image Award recipient hosted an eponymous talk show in the early 2000s and a revival of the home-improvement series “While You Were Out” in the late 2010s,

Eight months after opening up about her breast cancer diagnosis, former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis has died at the age of 52. The news of her death comes after Lewis sat down at a CNN roundtable to talk about her initial cancer diagnosis and the decisions she made following receiving that news.

CNN anchor Sara Sidner and CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam tearfully mourned the death of their close friend, former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis.