Grenada: The Dream of a Black Utopia

Samora Michel and Maurice Bishop

'A Marxist revolution, a Cold War proxy battle, and a dream of a Black utopia. In 1983, Ronald Reagan ordered the U.S. military to invade the island of Grenada. Almost four decades later, many Americans don't remember why — or that it even happened. “This was a Black country with people making their own success and failure,” says Dessima Williams, Grenada’s former ambassador to the U.S. “We didn't have White people over us. And I think that itself was revolutionary at the psychic level.” This week, Martine Powers, from Post Reports, brings Throughlinea story of revolution, invasion, and the aftermath of unresolved history.'