Dividend payments should be on a 1099DIV, not a 1099MISC. You should ask the party who issued the 1099-MISC to correct the 1099-MISC to $0 and issue a 1099-DIV.
If you have a Box 8, Substitute payments in lieu of dividends or interest, this means that your broker lent out your shares to a short seller. The 'substitute payments in lieu of dividend or interest" is the short seller making you whole for the dividend collected while he held the stock. Unfortunately, they don't qualify for favorable tax rates on qualified dividends.
You could run through the entry questions for the 1099MISC again.
When you run through the questions, you will come to a question about whether you intended to make money. If you did intend to make money, then it will tax your money as a business and apply the Self-Employment Tax. You can then deduct your expenses if you have any. If you did not intend to make money, then the program will just add the income as ordinary income with no Self Employment Tax
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