August 2006

Spike Lee directed When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, a four-hour HBO documentary on Hurricane Katrina and its devastating impact on New Orleans' Black community. The film won a Peabody Award and a Directors Guild Award and is considered among the greatest American documentaries.

Spike Lee directed When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, a four-hour HBO documentary on Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on New Orleans' Black community. The film won a Peabody Award and is considered among the greatest American documentaries.

Miami rapper Rick Ross released his debut album Port of Miami, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and introduced his persona as a hip-hop boss, launching a career that would make him one of the most successful rapper-entrepreneurs in the industry.

Philadelphia hip-hop band The Roots released Game Theory, a politically charged and sonically dark album widely praised as their finest work and one of the most important hip-hop albums of the decade.