After a year of high-profile police shootings of black Americans, many captured on video, racial attitudes among Americans -- particularly whites -- have undergone a significant shift.
A majority of whites now say the country needs to do more to make equal rights a reality, and a significantly larger number of white Americans say that blacks are treated less fairly than others by law enforcement officials, according to several newly released polls.
The share who say that racism is a "big problem" in the U.S. has grown significantly as well.
Asked whether the country “needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites” or whether it already has "made the changes needed," Americans by just short of 2-1 now say more change is needed, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.