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Chelsea Clinton has written a new illustrated book, She Persisted, about 13 American women who “changed the world.”

Clinton took to Twitter on Thursday morning to break the news and unveil the book’s cover.

“Persistence has changed the course of history,” she wrote. “I’m so excited to share stories of girls & women who didn’t take no for answer on May 30th!”

The book’s title is an abbreviated version of “nevertheless, she persisted,” the words top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell used to silence Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren after she attempted to protest Jeff Sessions’s attorney general nomination last month.

A major star of the post-Diaghilev Ballets Russes, he was celebrated for his romantic roles

Frederic Franklin, who has died aged 98, was one of the best loved figures in the dance world. Always genial, always helpful, he possessed a razor-sharp memory of all the ballets he had appeared in. Franklin played an important part in the preservation of many early ballets by George Balanchine, and in 2002 was able to reconstruct episodes from Devil's Holiday, a ballet created by Frederick Ashton in 1939, never revived since and never seen on stage by Ashton.

Franklin, known as Freddie, was a major star of the post-Diaghilev Ballets Russes, forming a memorable and long-lasting partnership with the ballerina Alexandra Danilova; her champagne personality and his good looks and charisma combined to stunning effect. This was especially true in such ballets as Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube and especially Gâité Parisienne. But Franklin also danced...

The Kennedy Center Honors have been handed out since 1978. Recipients hail from various branches of the American performance art world — including film, stage, music, and dance — even though performers more closely associated with British show business have managed to sneak in every now and then, e.g., Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Pete Townshend. Since recipients are supposed to attend the Washington, D.C., ceremony in order to take home their Kennedy awards, Doris Day has remained unhonored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Katharine Hepburn kept putting it off until she finally relented in 1990. (Irene Dunne, see above photo, was one who managed to be honored though absent due to ill health.) Ginger Rogers, for her part, was present at the ceremony, but her films with Fred Astaire weren't — because Astaire's widow, Robyn Astaire, demanded payment for the televised clips. At the time, Kennedy Center Honors...

With all the production budget cuts and unemployed dancers and choreographers, not to mention the generally sorry state of the economy, you may be finding it difficult to get into the holiday spirit this season. Well, despite the gloomy financial scene, dance lovers have plenty of reasons to celebrate. Here are a few.Come January, a former prima ballerina of Dance Theatre of Harlem, the beloved Virginia Johnson, will be taking over the reins as artistic director of the history-making company. Founded and directed since 1968 by former New York City Ballet principal dancer Arthur Mitchell, Dth was the first ever African-American classical ballet troupe and achieved world-class status before fiscal difficulties forced the professional company to go on hiatus in late 2004. The dance community is looking to Johnson, founder and former editor in chief of Pointe magazine, to revivify this treasured troupe. It was at this time last year that...