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Reckons Madden, who formed Good Charlotte with his twin brother Benji when the two were high school kids in suburban Maryland: “Easily one of the top 10 greatest nights of my life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

Reckons Crow, who got her start in the music biz as a backup singer for Jackson on tour behind “Bad”: “There’s no one that doesn’t know that song.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

The consequences could affect Black health for generations to come, said Dr. Uché Blackstock, a New York emergency room physician and author of “LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

It’s a generational memoir called “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine,” and it’s coming out summer 2023.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

"Reckons as how I wudn't, dad," replied the girl; who, somehow, did not seem to display any particular fear of the stern parent, such as might have been expected under the circumstances.

From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Carter, Herbert