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Chief Master Anderson has operated his Camp Positive program in various church-owned buildings around Little Rock over the past 22 years. He’s spent four years at 5618A W. 12th Street in the National Plaza building owned by St. Mark Baptist Church and before that spent 11 years at Liberty Hill Baptist Church.



In Camp Positive, students learn religious and positive poems, sayings along with martial arts and the importance of education. For… Continue

Some Little Rock kids are in need of a hero.



Kids in Little Rock without a place to go after school are welcomed at Anderson's Taekwondo Center on 12th street.



If their parents can't afford the lessons, director Senior Master Richard Anderson says he'll work with them.



However, the kids are going to need a hero to keep the program going.



Anderson and the kids have actually produced a radio spot; in it, they… Continue

AFRICAN AMERICAN by Rishard Carr (11 yrs. old)



[Rosa Parks Verse

This is for my people that was ridin in the streets,

dying in the streets for people like you and me.

Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus til the white bus driver

said that she must,give up her seat to a white man and thats

when the fighting all began.She said no sir my feet really hurt,

I walk from here, to work I do this in a way,I do this every day

Just so I can get my equal… Continue

Sr. Master Anderson is the Chief Instructor of Anderson's Taekwondo Center. (www.andersontaekwondo.com) He has been in Taekwondo for 30 years. He is a 7th Degree and he recently tested for his 8th Degree. He did EXCELLENT! Many people came to see him test at the Alltel now known as Verizon Arena in Little Rock, AR in June 2009! We have just received workding that the American Taekwondo Center (ATA) failed him once again. The first time they said he… Continue

My son Rishard just turned 10 on 12-5-07 along with his sister Makaya. On Thursday, 12-06-07 he brought home some poems and his interim report. Now back in the day if you brought and interim home you would be in trouble. Times has changed and they get interim reports for good grades too!

Here are the poems:

1st Poem: Cool Off

At first you were really happy,

But now you're really mad.

What happened to…

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