Strange bedfellows made up the crowd Friday morning at a ceremony honoring the 20th anniversary of the unveiling of the Little Rock Nine monument on the Arkansas Capitol Grounds.

Headliner Elizabeth Eckford – who somehow put one foot in front of the other in September 1957 to desegregate Little Rock Central High, despite a seething mob of hostile white people and National Guardsmen deployed to block her entrance – sat in the front row in a gold blazer, bumping shoulders with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

While she’s also a Central High alum, Sanders hardly deserved a seat next to a civil rights icon. Within hours of taking the oath of office in 2023, Gov. Sanders launched a campaign to safeguard white privilege at Black people’s expense. On Day One, Sanders signed an executive order banni

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