She is also a reporter on popular culture, the Caribbean, world music, and race-related issues for the "New York Times," "Los Angeles Times," "Wall Street Journal," and NPR, among others, and a co-producer and co-writer of the documentaries "Black & Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop" and "Rhyme & Punishment." She is the author of "Near Black: White to Black Passing in American Culture "(2008).