História Preta is celebrating its one year anniversary. And I'm very grateful for all the times I've been saved by producing this podcast. Our role is to use our voice to communicate our History, and bring to the surface all the ancestral wisdom buried by years of anti-black racism. That's why the first episode of the year is about him, the Orixá messenger, the one who not only holds all ancestral wisdom within himself but also communicates it through humanity. His wisdom mixed with cunning is frightening and challenges the status quo. His mere existence is a threat. Her patience in learning and communication, her ability to create new possibilities from crossroads confounds her whitewashed worldview. That's why he's marked for death. That's why they want your silence. And his name is Exu. The first.