TagIn Memoriam

When the San Francisco Giants unveiled a nine-foot bronze statue of Orlando Cepeda at its stadium in September 2008, it showed him standing tall, a dignified bearing, his gaze on the future. That is, perhaps, the best metaphor for the storied life of the National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree and 11-time All Star, affectionately

The Rev. James Lawson, the leading nonviolence theorist and tactician of the American Civil Rights Movement, passed away on June 9 in Los Angeles. He was 95. In the 1950s, he spent three years in India as a Methodist missionary and studied Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. He returned to the U.S. to attend graduate

On Feb. 20, Pina Picierno, vice president of the European Parliament, hosted an event titled “Promoting Peace Through Dialogue and Human Revolution: The Life of Daisaku Ikeda” at the European Parliament in Brussels. It honored the SGI president’s life and contributions in the areas of peace, culture and education. Scan the QR code to watch

In a TIME magazine article, Herbie Hancock, renowned jazz musician and Buddhist practitioner of over five decades, remarked how his mentor in life, Ikeda Sensei, served as a beacon of hope, whose teachings and warm, humanistic way brought out the intrinsic value of every individual: He asserted that each person carries a mission integral to

Reflecting on the Buddhist life journey of Tina Turner.

by World Tribune staff LOS ANGELES—Wayne Shorter, the legendary American jazz saxophonist and composer, and a devoted SGI-USA member for five decades, died on March 2, 2023, at 89. Mr. Shorter earned worldwide recognition for his mastery of the saxophone, including 12 Grammy Awards, culminating in a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 for his

Adapted from an article in the Sept. 1, 2022, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper. Ikeda Sensei sent a condolence message on the passing of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in Moscow on Aug. 30, 2022, at 91. The two men first met at the Kremlin in Moscow in

NEW YORK, July 5—The life and work of the gifted jazz pianist, composer and educator Onaje Allan Gumbs were memorialized this month when a street in his Bronx neighborhood was named “Onaje Allan Gumbs Way.” The longtime SGI member conceived the mission of jazz as lying far beyond the scope of mere entertainment. In a

The nation paid tribute to SGI-USA member and civil rights icon Alvin Sykes, who passed away on March 19, 2021. He was 64. Mr. Sykes, a self-taught legal defender, was best known for launching the Emmett Till Justice Campaign in January 2003 with Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, just days before her death. The campaign sought