Natina Reed

Natina Reed, former member of the R and B trio Blaque, was hit by a car and killed in Lilburn, Georgia on Friday, October 26th. Reed was walking in traffic at about 10:30 pm when she was hit. Although the police were called and CPR was administered, Reed was pronounced dead at Gwinnett Medical Center. The driver of the vehicle was not charged in the incident, which means that Natina Reed had probably made a foolish decision when she chose her route for that night.
This incident calls attention to either the lack of safe routes such as sidewalks for pedestrians or the falderal of one person, and it also makes me wonder about the ephemeral nature of fame. At one point no less than 10 years ago, everyone knew Blaque. Their debut album went platinum, and they released 7 albums. However, Reed's death was not dramatized as some celebrities' are, and she is almost completely unknown to my generation ( I had never heard of her specifically, though the title Blaque did ring a bell). I suppose this could be a byproduct of the media's current focus on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but it is more likely because she had been unknown to the media for a long. Those who stay in the public eye, such as Kim Kardashian, will inevitably be mourned by at least the media, but those who once were but aren't now seem forgotten.