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Sunday Breakfast Menu, Aug. 25

Sunday's Breakfast MenuStephen Crowley/The New York Times

As the United States observes the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, the Sunday shows will feature interviews with civil rights leaders and lawmakers about the state of the nation 50 years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” will repeat its 1963 interview with Dr. King in addition to its usual one-hour program.

Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia and an organizer of the original march, will appear on NBC, CBS’s “Face the Nation,” ABC’s “This Week” and CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Joining Mr. Lewis on NBC will be Cory A. Booker, the mayor of Newark and a Democratic nominee for New Jersey senator, and Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Mr. Booker could be the first black senator from his state, and Mr. Jindal was the first Indian-American governor in the nation.

Colin L. Powell, the retired general who was the first black secretary of state, will also be on CBS to talk about the civil rights movement. Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, and Representative Mike McCaul of Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, join the program to talk about the situation in Syria.

Andrew Young, a former mayor of Atlanta and leader of the civil rights movement, will appear on ABC with Mr. Lewis on Sunday.

CNN will feature Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, who will talk about the opposition to the president’s health care law and his own potential candidacy for president. Later, Howard Dean, a former Democratic presidential candidate, and Jim DeMint, former Republican senator, will look ahead to the elections in 2014.

On “Fox News Sunday,” Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Eliot Engel of New York, ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will weigh in on the American response to reports that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against the rebels.

Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and an Oklahoma district attorney, Jason Hicks, will also discuss the recent murder of a young Australian athlete there that’s capturing headlines.

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, will talk about the differences between the parties heading into 2014 on C-Span’s “Newsmakers.”

Martin Luther King III, son of the civil rights leader, will appear on Telemundo’s “Enfoque” to talk about his father’s relationship with the Hispanic community. Also on the show will be Dolores Huerta, the labor leader who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, and Representatives Joe Garcia, Democrat of Florida, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, talking about immigration. The program will be shown at noon Eastern.

Katherine Vargas, new White House Hispanic spokeswoman, will talk about the president’s options on immigration on Univision’s “Al Punto,” at 10 a.m. Eastern. And Rosario Marin, former United States treasurer, will discuss the need for immigration reform.

Robert L. Crandall, former chairman and chief executive of American Airlines, will talk about the Justice Department’s intervention in the company’s merger with US Airways on Bloomberg’s “Capitol Gains.” The program is shown at noon Eastern.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the White House budget director, appeared on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital,” where she discussed the budget fights looming in Congress. Also, Julian Bond, a civil rights leader who was at the 1963 March on Washington, was on the program, which was shown Friday with repeats throughout the weekend.