It seems as though children are always talking in sing-songs of poetry. They vocalize their own inventions, or things they’ve heard from someone else or found in books. Their verses can be made up of nonsense words that just sound good... Read More

“Adriana, thirteen years old, and her cousin Andrea, fourteen, have been street children since they were seven years old. They left their homes because they were beaten and/or violated.” Such is the sad case of the eight girls... Read More

When John Lennon was gunned down outside the Dakota twenty years ago, it seemed the peace movement was silenced with the gunshots. In the intervening decades, however, Ikeda and the Soka Gakkai International have been articulate... Read More