Articles Written by Joel Dreyfuss
From NFL players to college presidents to think-tank heads, influential Haitians living abroad could be a powerful voice for reform.
France had been engaged in a major debate about its national identity. Then Putin launched his war on Ukraine.
When French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel launched his new start-up incubator last month, President Macron attended the opening ceremonies in Paris and delivered a rousing speech to the 2,000 attendees.
French President Emmanuel Macron is so enamored by technology innovation that he has described his own spectacular political rise in terms usually applied to internet start-ups.
A small Francophile community, lured by Harlem’s sense of community and storied history, has sprung up, and along with it have come French restaurants.
"Where are you from?" In multiethnic America, the question is a way to classify you: to embrace or dismiss you. For those of us who came to America from Haiti 20 or 30 years ago, the question was usually a signal to brace ourselves.
THE REV. CALVIN O. BUTTS 3D HAS JUST been badly disappointed by a telephone call. His effort to arrange a meeting with a major religious leader has been rejected…
The rapid transformation of Japan from a defeated empire to one of the world's most powerful nations has always outraced the capacity of foreign analysts to keep up.
Haïti a un passé glorieux et un présent ravagé, mais son peuple a déjà surmonté l’adversité.
Le site The Root revient sur le choix de Gérard Depardieu pour interpréter l'écrivain quarteron.
Opinion | The Haiti I Know Is No More. But There Is Still Hope
Haiti has suffered political crises before, but never has its future seemed so bleak. But one of its native sons sees a solution to the chaos.
Articles Featuring Joel Dreyfuss
It began as little more than a last ditch maneuver by a 33‐year‐old engineer to secure admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. Even before it was completed, however, the case of Bakke v. Regents of the University of California gained, national attention and mushroomed into one of the most controversial issues of the 1970's.
Joel Dreyfuss, a Haitian-American journalist and editor, had long sought to write a book about his family’s 300-year involvement with Haiti’s history.
Joel Dreyfuss, a former tech writer for Fortune magazine who relaunched Red Herring magazine in 2004, writes about the failings of the business media in the wake of the recent criticism of CNBC.
Black History Month need not be confined to a four-week period anymore. Thanks to the World Wide Web, it is possible to study the history of the African-American experience year round.