‘I can and I will’: Ninth annual Boyz to Men conference teaches boys how to be men

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — What makes a boy a man?

It’s a question dozens of young boys spent time tackling at the ninth annual Boyz to Men conference at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston.

“We remind them of who they are, and we remind them of what they’re capable of,” Butch Kennedy, founder and CEO of the Palmetto Hope Network and the Boyz to Men conference, said. “Sometimes, because of where you come from, because of how you started, you don’t feel like you could ever amount to anything or that your life will ever go anywhere.”…

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