Black American Sign Language? What You Know About That? Meet Nakia Smith a.k.a. Charmay. She's the 4th deaf generation of five generations, and she is here to inject some knowledge in our veins about BASL, it's roots as part of the survival of Black deaf folks in this country dating back to the 1800s, and how the dialect is so different (she says "It got seasoning!") from standard ASL. | Strong Black Lead