In observance of America’s Black History Month, I am again reproducing a column I wrote on March 2, 2014, on an African American theme that I believe readers will find engaging.

This Valentine's Day, millions of Americans expressed their feelings about someone special in their life through the gift of flowers. In doing so, they followed the advice of a major floral wire ...

The Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, declared that terms like "collapse," "betrayal," and "resignation" are absent ...

From "founding fathers" to "misunderestimate," U.S. presidents have come up with—and taken heat for—a wide range of words and phrases.