Greenville's Malcolm X Center for Self-determination held day one of its 30th annual Malcolm X Festival on Saturday.The festival is apart of a nationwide celebration of the anniversary of Malcolm X's birthday, which is May 19."The Malcolm X Festival in its 30th year continues to be the largest and the longest standing black festival in the upstate,” Lead Organizer Efia Nwangaza said. "We do the festival here in Cleveland park, because Cleveland Park, like all the other parks in Greenville, were segregated. We continue to have it here because we assert our human right to self-determination and our human right to access the benefits for which we pay.”The festival featured live music, food, vendors, crafts, spoken word, voter registration plus more."It’s fun," festival attendee Shaun Dover said. "Everybody is having a good time, there’s no violence, and everybody is celebrating who made the way for us to be here today.”Organizers said the festival is not only about having fun and celebrating Black culture, but it also serves as a reminder that the fight for equality for Black people is far from over."I'm 75 years old, and I will continue to fight until the dignity and worth of Black people is respected, and the contributions that we make to any society are appreciated and reflected in the policies and practices of that society,” Nwangaza said. "Malcolm X was a human rights advocate who was committed first to the assertion, the protection, the promotion of the human rights of people of African descent specifically, and of all humanity generally. We look to his example as a way of life to work toward the freedom of Black people specifically and humanity generally.”The festival continues on Sunday, starting at 11 a.m. and wrapping up around 8 p.m.