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Worth a Click: 7 Stories You Should Read Today

By DNAinfo Staff | September 15, 2015 5:21pm 

The "Titans" of Late-Night are All Men 

Who's more out of touch? The people who cast late-night television or Vanity Fair? On Monday, the magazine tweeted out this photo of all nine hosts of the major shows calling them "titans."  

What's most striking about the photo is that it looks like a scotch-swilling old boys club chock full of men. The last couple paragraphs of the article does mention that Chelsea Handler and Samantha Bee are the only women helming upcoming shows, but by burying them at the bottom and not including them in the "titans" photo, the magazine is just as guilty as the network executives who continue to keep women off the desk. 

One good thing did come out of the photo shoot. Check out the response Bee tweeted out Monday. [Vanity Fair]

Gentrifying Brownsville

As the landscape of neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Bushwick undergo rapid changes, many believe that Brownsville is next up for gentrification.

Community leaders are working to prepare for the future on their own terms by providing locals with opportunities and jobs in the area. Such projects include MGP Pops, an outdoor marketplace at a formerly vacant lot, and the revisualization of the Belmont Avenue corridor with new businesses from Brownsville natives.

“We don’t know what the future’s going to bring,” the owner for a future café told Al Jazeera America. “But we just got to try to stay ahead of the game, keep doing what we’re doing — gentrifying from within.” [Al Jazeera America

Watch Matt Damon Explain Diversity in Hollywood to a Successful Black Woman Filmmaker

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's HBO series "Project Greenlight" — in which firsttime filmmakers get the chance to make a movie — is getting a lot of attention as an example of what's wrong with Hollywood's attitude toward diversity.

In one episode, producer Effie Brown — who is a black woman with more than a dozen films under her belt — argued that hiring people of color behind the camera can bring perspective and sensitivity to the treatment of people of color on screen. That's when Damon jumped in. 

Critics said that Damon's response reinforced the implicit belief that Hollywood is dominated by white men because they're the only ones who know how to make good films, leaving women and minorities out in the cold. [Jezebel

Wealthy Colleges Leave Lower-Income Students With More Debt

A ProPublica analysis of new federal higher education data found that schools with large endowments offer comparably little financial aid, leaving lower-income students deep in debt when they graduate. The study highlighted New York University, which has come under fire in the past year or so for spending money on the institution’s growth — a new campus in Abu Dhabi and a multi-building expansion in Greenwich Village — rather than on providing financial assistance to students while tuition costs rise. [ProPublica

Why the Internet Loves Personal Essays

Slate takes a look at why and how first-person essays have become such a popular component of online publications, as well as the potentially negative impact that publishing them can have on the writers. [Slate]

Warriors Return to Coney Island, Along with Hundreds of Diehard Fans

About 5,000 fans of the cult classic “The Warriors” flocked to Coney Island last Sunday to meet the movie's stars, get their autographs and hang out with other movie enthusiasts. Many came wearing Warriors costumes and did not mind paying up to $400 to enter the Coney Island Reunion, which got them a vest, T-shirt, poster and a chance to watch the 1979 flick about gang warfare one more time. [PIX 11]

Disney is Making a "Mary Poppins" Sequel

Plans are in the works to make a sequel to the beloved childrens' classic "Mary Poppins." Word is that it will highlight the signing governess's life two decades after the original movie ended. Because nothing says cheery and optimistic children's film like Depression-era London. [Vanity Fair