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Yahweh ben Yahweh was the adopted name of Hulon Mitchell Jr., founder, and leader of the Nation of Yahweh, a black supremacist new religious movement founded in 1979. | Yahweh ben Yahweh was the adopted name of Hulon Mitchell Jr., founder, and leader of the [[Nation of Yahweh]], a black supremacist new religious movement founded in 1979. | ||
In 1991, Mitchell was convicted of conspiring to murder white people as an initiation rite to his cult, as well as former members who disagreed with him, in one case by decapitation. He was released on parole in 2001 on the condition of not reconnecting with his old congregation. He died of prostate cancer in 2007. | In 1991, Mitchell was convicted of conspiring to murder white people as an initiation rite to his cult, as well as former members who disagreed with him, in one case by decapitation. He was released on parole in 2001 on the condition of not reconnecting with his old congregation. He died of prostate cancer in 2007. | ||