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Rita Moreno had all eyes on her in a shimmering red ensemble on Tuesday as she added some star power to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's 34thNational Equal Justice Awards Dinner.The 90-year-old EGOT holder looked vibrant in a red sequined blouse while joining singers John Legend, 43, and Stevie Wonder, 72, who both provided entertainment for the attendees at the New York City event.The event honors leaders in a variety of disciplines who promote 'racial justice and equality,' including Wonder, who was being honored with the organization's Icon award. Woman in red: Rita Moreno, 90, sizzled in a red sequined blouse and matching skirt as she led the stars at the NAACP LDF Equal Justice Awards Dinner in New York City on TuesdayRita paired her glamorous top with a matching scarlet skirt that reached down to the ground.She stayed on the same color scheme with her open-toe shoes, but she contrasted the red with a striking lapel-free white blazer decorated with flower-shaped jewels jewels over one shoulder.

By When Thurgood Marshall founded the Legal Defense and Education Fund under the NAACP umbrella in 1940, America was embroiled in racial discrimination and early fights for civil rights. Eighty years later, the charge against our nation's inequities and injustices is Sherrilyn Ifill, who first joined the organization in 1988 as an assistant counsel in the area of voting rights.Following a 20-year hiatus from the institution in order to teach law at the University of Maryland, where she accomplished groundbreaking centered on civil rights, discrimination, and lynchings in the 21st century, Ifill returned in 2013 to take the reins as the seventh president and director-counsel of LDF. She was the second woman ever to do so, behind .