Digital Smarts - Tik Tok Used to Teach Black American Sign Language
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Nakia Smith, 22, is using TikTok videos to teach Black American Sign Language (developed during the era of segregated schools) to viewers, and is attracting millions of views. Smith, whose family has deaf people across several generations, is part of a movement that has attracted interest in how Black deaf people communicate and the differences between BASL and American Sign Language.