State law claim must be brought under the law granting the specific cause of action, as opposed to the more procedurally lenient general tort recovery statute.
Discrimination claim under the federal statute does not present an issue for trial when the candidate who actually got the promotion and the plaintiff are equally qualified; the business judgment of the employer is a sufficiently non-pretextual race-neutral justification.
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/17/17-30899-CV0.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.