As leaders around the world prepare to gather for an emergency summit on climate change next week, a global grassroots movement is gaining attention with planned climate strikes this Friday. WMRA’s Bridget Manley reports.

A Charlottesville judge refuses to free members of a white supremacist group while they appeal their convictions for attacking counter-protesters… Virginia Democrats get good news – they’re outraising Republicans in this election year, and new data show that places that vote Democratic are growing faster than places that vote Republican… What can solar power do for low-income communities?

A working group of Virginia’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission held a public forum at James Madison University in Harrisonburg Monday [Sept. 16] to discuss the “History of Lynching in Virginia.” Monday night’s forum was the group’s first public meeting, and will be followed by similar events in Culpeper and Richmond. WMRA’s Randi B. Hagi reports.

JMU hosts a forum on the history of lynching in Virginia, including in Harrisonburg… After the state’s attorney general says marriage applicants don’t have to disclose their race, a lawyer in the case says that’s not good enough… Candidates for the General Assembly face a key deadline for campaign finance….

After a judge rules Charlottesville’s Confederate statues must stay where they are, the Lee statue is again vandalized… A JMU forum will discuss Harrisonburg’s history of lynching… Couples planning to get married in Virginia will no longer have to disclose their race on the marriage application….

UVa drops 14 overdue payment cases in court, three days after a report highly critical of the medical center’s collection efforts… Lieutenant Governor Fairfax sues CBS for defamation over a report on the two women who accuse him of sexual assault… We take a ride in a self-driving vehicle in Crozet….

A judge rules that the Confederate statues that led to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville have to stay where they are… Virginia joins other states in suing the family behind Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin… Could future opioid settlements look a lot like settlements with the tobacco industry?

UVa’s Health System announces it is reviewing its billing practices in the wake of a scathing report… The court case that sparked the Unite the Right rally finally begins, but all the major issues are already settled… And, in a preview of the latest John Grisham Writers Hour at JMU, historian Jon Meacham says our current political divisions are nothing new….

Historian Jon Meacham says the United States’ current political division is nothing new. In his new book, The Soul of America , Meacham examines times when the country was just as divided.

A new study finds that UVa’s Health System is unusually aggressive in going after payment, suing thousands of patients for all they’re worth… On what would have been his birthday, the late Army Captain Humayun Khan is remembered with the naming of a Charlottesville post office in his honor… U.S. News & World Report ranks James Madison University number one in innovation among regional institutions in the South....