Assigning activities based on current or past events allows students to explore mathematics in a social context. Using social justice events in the mathematics classroom is a way for teachers to provide contextual problems that will reach all students and promote equity. Learning mathematics in an environment in which social issues are explored empowers students "to read the world" and see it in a socio-political context; in the process, it will transform their view of mathematics. In this article, the author describes the South Central activity which explores problem solving in a real-world context and content typically found in a traditional Euclidean geometry course. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.)