蜜芽传媒

President Barack Obama has made history by stepping foot in Cuba, but what global figures turned up to visit Fidel Castro when he held court in Harlem in New York in 1960? Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why the Cuban leader's residency was so significant.

(Photo: Fidel Castro (L) is embraced by the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev at the United Nations in New York in September 1960. Credit: Associated Press)