The San Francisco Chronicle praised Cepeda's stewardship as follows: "Finally, there's another option for the intelligent urban mind, and much like the woman at its helm, OneWorld magazine is bold and refreshing.
Featuring the American rappers Raekwon and Paul Wall and the Puerto Rican rapper and reggaeton star Tego Calderon, the film was described by Catherine Clyne in Satya magazine as "a unique documentary that draws together American hip-hop, its trappings of glittery bling-worship and the recent civil war in Sierra Leone, which was fueled by diamonds mined under brutal conditions.
"[13] A shorter version of the film, edited for content and time, aired on VH1 in February 2007 under the title Bling'd: Blood, Diamonds and Hip-Hop.
In a review for NBC Latino, Claudio Remeseira suggested that readers should see the book as "the non-fiction, female-gender companion to Junot Díaz's 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'.
Both are tales of self-discovery through the many racial, ethnic, and linguistic conflicting forces that lie at the heart of U.S. Latino identity, as well as the story of a personal struggle against a supposed fukú or ancestral curse that has haunted the author's families for generations.
"[16] Co-founded by Cepeda with authors Baratunde Thurston and Tanner Colby, "About Race" was produced by Panoply Media, a part of Slate's podcast network.