Dwight Lewis

Dwight Lewis is an award-winning journalist who retired in September 2011 as editorial page editor and op-ed page columnist for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville. A member of First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, and a native of Knoxville,

 

Dwight is the co-author of A Will To Win, a storybook, a history book and a sports book written into one often amusing, sometime touching story of the powerful athletic history of Tennessee State University from 1912 until 1984. He is also a contributor to the book, Thinking Black: Some of the Nation’s Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind.  The book was edited by DeWayne Wickham and published in February 1996 by Crown Publishers and the co-author of Temple’s Tigerbelles: An Illustrated History Of The Women Who Outran The World. The book, published by Cumberland Media, was published in February 2019.

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Dwight has written for Hope Magazine, American Legacy, Gospel Today and Ebony, and In May 1981, Dwight was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Journalists. He has been interviewed on the ABC television program, Nightline, and has also appeared on numerous other television and radio broadcasts, including hosting his own Politics Hour on Fisk Radio which featured a line up of notable guests including Rep. John Lewis, Freedom Riders Jim Zwerg and Kwame Leo Lillard, and many more.

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In July 1994, Dwight was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists as the first place recipient in commentary writing for newspapers with a daily circulation of 150,000 and under during the association’s awards ceremony in Atlanta.

In April 2006, Dwight was one of eight Nashville men saluted with a “Do Right Spirit’’ award by the Oasis Center of Nashville for having “generously and faithfully giving their time, talents and resources to youth and families in Middle Tennessee and beyond.’’ The Oasis Center works with young people in Middle Tennessee. 

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