With the No. 16 overall pick in the 2024 #NFLDraft Seattle Seahawks selects former DeSoto, Texas Longhorns DT Byron Murphy II. He cheered with his friends and family at The Statler Dallas. SportsDayDFW SportsDayHS Dallas Morning News

Long week on Texas campuses. Let's recap. I was in the office Tuesday afternoon, when I learned UT Dallas students were occupying an administrative building. I rushed to campus and reported on their 7 hour sit-in. 📸 Shafkat Anowar 🌟

Btween Feb-March, Zaeem Shaikh @TDavisDMN Chitose Suzuki Shafkat Anowar 🌟 and I spent time meeting folx in Richardson's Chinatown, Irving's Desi community and the Southeast Asian American enclave in eastern Tarrant County. The goal was to meet people where they feel comfortable

Caitlin Clark makes her WNBA debut in Arlington | Dallas Morning News Caitlin Clark

What an opener. 🏀🔥 See photos from the Dallas Wings' preseason win against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever 👉: bit.ly/44tKu5b 📸: Shafkat Anowar 🌟

Valley View residents count blessings as they sort through the rubble left by a deadly tornado last night. It was part of a series of powerful storms that killed at least 14 people and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Dallas Morning News

From the late 1980s thru early 2000s, the Wingren Village apartments in Irving, Texas was home to dozens of South Asian American families. Meet the "uncles and aunties" who fostered a community at the complex - #8 in the Asian American Bustle! Dallas Morning News dallasnews.com/news/2024/05/2…

The care Shafkat Anowar 🌟 puts into his work is on full display in this photo gallery of the residents we spoke to for the latest story in our Asian American Bustle project. Here's a preview dallasnews.com/photos/2024/05…

This year’s Ramadan was one of my eventful time in Dallas. I spent a chunk of that month with the “uncles and aunties” who fostered a community at the Wingren Village in Irving, TX. It was a home to dozens of South Asian families from late 1980s thru early 2000s. With Hojun Choi

Another DFW team in a major league championship, another great poster front page from Dallas Morning News and Smiley Pool.

There are really great photos in this story from Shafkat Anowar 🌟 who was often at these places by himself, working to gain the trust of the south asian and Muslim community. Here's just one of three galleries from him of a pre-Ramadan bazaar and iftar at ICI: dallasnews.com/news/2024/05/3…

D-FW Bangladeshis celebrate Bengali new year, hope to build hub for next generation dallasnews.com/news/texas/202… Zaeem Shaikh Shafkat Anowar 🌟 Dallas Morning News

Micah Parsons recently hosted youth football camps across Texas, making a stop in Frisco on Friday. The Cowboys LB spoke about the opportunity he sees in criticism entering a new season. #CowboysNation 📰: dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys… 📸 from Shafkat Anowar 🌟: dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys…

Summer has officially arrived #summersolstice Dallas Morning News

So much has happened over the past month, it’s been difficult to keep up with it all. Here’s a reminder of the insanity of the past 28 days — a comprehensive visual timeline of how the 2024 election has been turned upside down Isabella Ramírez politico.com/news/2024/07/2…

Things have started to look like a civil war in Bangladesh. Nearly 100 dead in a renewed anti-government protest. After student protests in July were met in a deadly government crackdown, a revival on Sunday plunged #BANGLADESH further into violence

Peep our Dallas Morning News star photographer Smiley Pool in the background capturing the moment

Catherine and Anna were adopted from Korea, and for 50 years didn't know the other existed. In July, they were reunited with each other in DFW - the reunion was beautiful, as were their stories of how they got there Dallas Morning News w/ Spencer Shafkat Anowar 🌟 dallasnews.com/news/2024/08/1…

Home sweet home: See photos from CeeDee Lamb's return to Cowboys practice at The Star in Frisco 🏠 More from Shafkat Anowar 🌟 here: dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys…

I can't put into words yet what it meant to cover Texas' inaugural Michelin awards. I will think about the stories my Dallas Morning News colleagues and I wrote yesterday for most of my career. It was an army of effort. ALL THE FEELINGS with these beautiful print pages.