• "Every January, descendants of Confederate soldiers gather in Wyman Park to march under the banner of the Confederacy, sing 'Dixie' and lay wreaths at the monument to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson … And afterward, for 20 years now, everyone has gone across the street to the Johns Hopkins University for coffee and refreshments … But next year will be different. Hopkins has informed the Maryland divisions of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans that it will not rent space to them. The Jan. 17 event is scheduled for only a few days before the inauguration of the nation's first African-American president."