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This Black History Month, we invite you to read two acclaimed books that interrogate the social history of tuberculosis from race informed perspectives. The first is the historical classic by professor Randy Packard White Plague, Black Labour: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa (1989), that follows the evolution of the TB epidemic through apartheid South Africa. The second is journalist Maria Smilios’ Black Angels: The Untold Story of The Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (2023), that recovers the legacy of extraordinary nurses who risked their lives in a segregated America to find a cure for TB. Both are must-reads, sitting among a much wider set of extraordinary books that deliver social science insights on TB.