Notorious Enid Native Dies
Former cult leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh, has died. He was 71. He had been fighting prostate cancer and died in his sleep.Yahweh was born Hulon Mitchell Jr. in Enid, Oklahoma. He was the eldest of 15 children and at one time was a preacher in Oklahoma. In the late 1970s he moved to Miami, Florida where he changed his name to the Hebrew words for "God, son of God.'' In Florida he opened a headquarters called the Temple of Love and began to cultivate a group of followers that often dressed completely in white.
He was the self-proclaimed "Black Messiah'' and founded the Nation of Yahweh which preached religious separatism for blacks. At the group's height, it claimed thousands of followers in Miami and elsewhere.
Mitchell served 11 years of an 18-year federal prison sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction. Although controversial and accused of murder, many will remember him for the many charitable contributions he made, which led to him receiving a key to the city of Miami.








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