Google Doodle is marking on Tuesday the life and legacy of Raoul A. Cortez, a pioneer of Spanish-language radio and broadcasting in the U.S. and a civil rights activist, on what would have been his 118th birthday.

Celebrating a quintessential element of Mexico’s cultural heritage, the search engine has created a video Doodle that greets users with Mariachi music. Today #GoogleDoodle celebrates one of the most iconic and popular elements of the 🇲🇽 culture & identity: Mariachi music 🎼🎺❗️🔖 In 2011, @UNESCO inscribed “Mariachi Music” as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Check out➕👉🏼 https://t.co/peZbkR9RkZ@GoogleDoodles pic.twitter.com/hkvhokRRz2 — Embassy of Mexico in the U.S. (@EmbamexEUA) November 24, 2020According to Google, during a session held the week of November 22, 2011, UNESCO inscribed Mariachi on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since its birth during the 19th century, Mariachi music has evolved, mixing itself with other genres from jazz to reggae; however, it remains a strong representation of Mexican history and culture. The video Doodle featured on Google’s homepage displays a Mariachi serenade of the classic song, “Cielito Lindo.”

(CNN) -- In honor of Juneteenth, companies have given employees paid leave in celebration, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is pushing to make it a paid state holiday and there seems to be more awareness around the holiday than ever before. Now, Google is also jumping in, commemorating the 155th anniversary of June 19 -- largely celebrated as the end of slavery in the US -- with a video Google Doodle. Set to the first verse of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," also called the Black national anthem, the video begins with General Order No. A blend of the words June and nineteenth, Juneteenth is the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery.