Raquel Cepeda is an American journalist, critic, film-maker, and autobiographer of Dominican descent. The editor of Russell Simmons"? OneWorld magazine between 2001 and 2004, Cepeda was also the editor the award-winning anthology "And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years"?, the co-producer, writer, and director of the documentary film Bling: A Planet Rock, and the author of "Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina."?