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BET News Adds Melissa Harris-Perry as Special Correspondent

Melissa Harris Perry speaks onstage during the Black Woman's Vote panel at the 2016 ESSENCE Festival Presented By Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 1, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Melissa Harris Perry speaks onstage during the Black Woman’s Vote panel at the 2016 ESSENCE Festival Presented By Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 1, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

*Melissa Harris-Perry is setting up shop at BET.

The former MSNBC host has signed on to BET News as a special correspondent, according to Deadline.com. Under the deal, she’ll host and contribute to various BET News programs and develop longform news specials for the network.

Her first assignment will be to co-anchor election coverage for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions along with BET News correspondent Marc Lamont Hill.

The cable channel will air an hourlong recap special on the GOP gathering at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 24. The show will include convention highlights along with exclusive interviews with newsmakers and celebrities.

Harris-Perry and MSNBC had a very public breakup in February after an email in which she criticized MSNBC’s decision to pre-empt her show for election-cycle coverage was leaked to The New York Times.

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