BASL was passed down for generations as a way to segregate Black deaf students -- now, the Black deaf community is taking ownership of a sign language they are proud to call their own.

ASL Pro is a free tool with a wealth of quizzes, fingerspelling practices, and a super detailed dictionary complete with video examples for learning how to sign hundreds of words.

Celebrating and preserving Black American Sign Language ABC News’ Kyra Phillips reports on the origins of Black American Sign Language, and the movement to recognize and preserve a language born ...

Though I would prefer to sign with others than try to lipread, I am reasonably good at passing—that is, at seeming as much like a hearing person as possible.

For deaf Angelenos of color, and particularly those who are black, the language they sign among themselves is strikingly different from what's on TV. The tension is evident in a seemingly simple ...

Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies are primed to learn sign language just like spoken language.